Action Quotes
Find one of the best and famous quote catagorized into topics like inspirational, motivations, deep, thoughtful, art, success, passion, frindship, life, love and many more.
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflected in all our thoughts and actions.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
Because motivation pervades all action, it is important that we have a positive motivation. Whatever we are involved in, whether it’s politics, education, medicine, law, engineering, science, business or industry, the nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one’s mind is the essence of the Buddha’s teaching.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.”
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.”
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Quote by -Aristotle
"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Quote by -Buddha
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“To hurry through one’s leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“we don’t know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.
Quote by -Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
Quote by -Mother Teresa
“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”
Quote by -William James
If I want a better-than-average career, I can’t simply ‘go with the flow’ and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If they would just do something most people would find that they get some version of the outcome they’re looking for. That’s been my secret. Stop wishing and start doing.
Quote by -Tim Firris
“The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.” –
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
“We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
Certein bodies… become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.
Quote by -Marie Curie
“Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.”
Quote by -B. K. S. Iyengar