Action Quotes - Page 9

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.

J.R. Rim

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action. She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

Ayn Rand

You never know when one seemingly unrelated event may become the catalyst that sets off a chain of synchronistic events. Though you may not know for sure when something important will happen, you can always be ready to take action.

Andrea Goeglein

No matter how cold your proverbial winter, you can plant seeds of change in your life by changing your thoughts and actions.

Andra Brynnoeglein

...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man’s foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...

Ayn Rand

You may have come to advocacy on your own, it may be part of your job or you may have been asked to “put a face” on a campaign by serving as its spokesperson. You may be acting as a lone crusader or as part of a larger advocacy effort. Either way, you share an objective with all other advocates: to have your story move audiences from apathy to empathy to action.

John Capecci and Timothy Cage

Self-education is a sacred act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just as all being is but a flaw in the perfection of nonbeing. Which is God. For if God is perfection and the only perfection is in nonbeing, then God is nonbeing. Then God is nothing. Nothing can give no basis for the criticism of Thing in its thingness. Then where do you get anything to say? Then where do you get off?

Robert Penn Warren

Where Love meets action, there be God.

Not everyone takes action to harvest the experiences of the seasons of life in order to enjoy their bounty.

Andrea Goeglein

Swallowing, he peered down at Noelle, floored by the sheer calm reflecting back at him. "You okay, babe?"tShe rolled her eyes. "Of course. What do you think I am, a pansy-ass damsel who weeps at the first sign of trouble?

It suddenly occurred to him that for the first time in years, they were about to be alone together for more than five minutes.tJust the two of them. On a small jet. Tens of thousands of feet in the air.tChrist.tMaybe he should've packed a parachute, just in case.

The razor hung between his shoulder-blades from a loop of cotton string round his neck inside his shirt. The same motion of the hand which brought the razor forward over his shoulder flipped the blade open and freed it from the cord, the blade opening on until the back edge of it lay across the knuckles of his fist, his thumb pressing the handle into his closing fingers, so that in the second before the half-drawn pistol exploded he actually struck at the white man's throat not with the blade but with a sweeping blow of his fist, following through in the same motion so that not even the first jet of blood touched his hand or arm.

William Faulkner

The actions of man’s thoughts are similar to the action of a magnet.

Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act.

It isn’t always the treasure that drives men down deep into the sea; it’s something else, something unexplainable, even to them.

Jennifer Arnett

Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

It has taken my whole life thus far to see how being brave enough to hold on to a question, brave enough to never stop looking for answers, and brave enough to take action even when I didn’t know the right answer, was as brave as I needed to be to succeed and to succeed with love.

andrea T Goeglein

Emotion triggers action, good or otherwise

Pieter BF Swart

I would like to show that we can become so much more through awareness. That is why I speak of conscious evolution. If we understand ourselves, how we think and react, why we do things... Then we can work out how to think more constructively, act more usefully, do things more easily, become more of the person we really want to be deep down inside.

Turn intentions into actions and actions into results: Manchovian Prince

Manchovian Prince

Given that media has become fast-paced, readers now want books that show the action and don’t just tell you what is happening. Modern readers don’t want three pages of descriptions of a farmhouse. They want to hear the door’s creak quiet the chirping of crickets out in the cornfield, they want to feel the cool air drift through the house, then they want to see the shadow of a man, gun drawn, standing over the bed of his disloyal lover.

Jennifer Arnett

One thing I've found... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

The gun bounced so much in her shaky grasp that if she did fire, he’d likely be the one to catch the bullet.

Cathy Skendrovich

Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.

Tony Curl

It's only when you put action into practice will you ever really unlock the real possibilities that surround you.

Tony Curl

There is an opportunity cost in every action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.

It’s not about how you feel. It’s about what you do.

Susan May Warren

A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

Your Karma is defined by your Actions plus your Intent. A seemingly incorrect action with a pure intent can potentially result in good Karma

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

Rita Dove

The barrier standing between you and the life you are capable of living is a lack of consistent execution. Effective execution will set you free. It is the path to accomplish the things you desire.

A man's action always takes it's result along.

We have made our tasks infinitely more difficult because we failed to do yesterday what we are glad to do today. To delay longer will make the war more protracted and increase the sacrifices for victory. Let us stop asking ourselves if it is necessary to do more now. Let us ask ourselves what more we can do today, so we have less to sacrifice tomorrow.

John Gilbert Winant

Doubt, fear and helplessness will always try to flourish when we are in a holding pattern for too long. The best defense – is to just do something. Anything positive! Something healthy! Get moving! Get busy! Often, this is the only way to calm the inner storm. Even more often, this is the only way the best course of action will finally find us ready to unveil itself to us.

Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed.

Time changes things; rather, a person's action over the passage of time changes things.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Until you are willing to learn the lessons, pay attention to details, and become patient with yourself, you will keep repeating the same patterns over and over again.

Maybe. But I was always fond of killing assholes. And you're at the top of the list.

To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, wisdom and years of training

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

A samurai was essentially a man of action.

My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below..

Jonathan Friesen

Instead of a feeling, think of love as an action. The feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can’t control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.

Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom,

Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased when expressed in words, which transform the thought into the property of others, making it understandable to anyone who can understand it.

Fernando Pessoa

Audiences are craving intricate and intelligent stories that keep them on the edge of their seats.

Jennifer Arnett

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Peter F Drucker

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

You have merories?Lost somebody, which will mean he has died or something is going and you can't stop it the time eats so he dies...You lost a lot of choices??Did you...As far as I can tell, I think that I'm rich. I have one treasure and that's it, it's fill with such stuff.

There is no reward for wishes.

But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.

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