Great Action Quotes

Below you will find a great collection of action quotes. Enjoy!

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
-- Amelia Earhart

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
-- Mohandas Gandhi, action quotes

Action: Take it easy, but take it.
-- Woody Guthrie

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
-- Anais Nin

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
-- Barack Obama, action quotes

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
-- Caroline Myss

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
-- Epictetus


A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
-- Georges Bernanos

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
-- Herman Melville, action quotes

Action is the antidote to despair.
-- Joan Baez

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
-- John Dewey

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
-- John Locke


To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
-- Michael Hanson

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
-- Buddha

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
-- Zig Ziglar

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
-- Tony Robbins

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
-- Napoleon Hill

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

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