Action Sayings & Quotes
These action sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating 'heart talk' frequency. 'Heart talk' is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. - Sara Paddison
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honour. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. - Herbert Clark Hoover
If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. - Peter McWilliams
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. - Seneca
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. - Gillian Anderson
A well-ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium. - Margaret Thatcher
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable. - Peter F. Drucker
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. - Oscar Wilde
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. - Charles Evans Hughes
The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place. [Burma] - Louis A. Allen
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. - Claude Arien Helvetius
Air power can either paralyse the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defence of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack. - Sir Winston Churchill
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Action is eloquence. [Coriolanus] - William Shakespeare
We had to learn ourselves and furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us! We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. - Viktor E. Frankl
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. - Gore Vidal
The man whose first question, after what he considers to be a right course of action has presented itself, is 'What will people say?' is not the man to do anything at all. - Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you. - Calvin Coolidge
If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, at the expense of the object to be achieved, side issues then assume an exaggerated importance, and all gravity of thought and action is lost; such excitement is not an exercise of strength, but a display of weakness. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. - Akhenaton
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. - Jean Paul Richter
Among the great men who have philosophised about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness. - Galileo Galilei