Action Quotes · Page 151

“you can't control your emotion, but you can control your action”

— Hlovate

The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.

— Mother Teresa

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.

— Steve Maraboli

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

— Anonymous

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

— Harper Lee

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

— Barbara Nickless

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

— Vaclav Havel

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to…

— William Shakespeare

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to…

— William Godwin

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take…

— Indira Gandhi

The emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them negative emotions...…

— Tony Robbins

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make…

— Chuck Norris

If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be…

— Gautham Menon

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are…

— Walt Whitman

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own…

— Candace Bushnell

I usually experiment with posture and physical attributes that may inform the character. Next, my impression gets a nice injection of inspiration…

— Bryce Pinkham

Personal power involves producing success through modeling what works and taking consistent action towards your goals. At the same time, you have…

— Tony Robbins

The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the…

— Amy Pascal

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one…

— Archibald MacLeish

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic…

— Adam Sedgwick

We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and…

— Mitt Romney

Your life is not decided by fate; you must create the future you want by taking the right actions now.

— Melchor Lim

“Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.”

— Orrin Woodward

“The most time consuming process in the world is probably "thinking".”

— Amit Kalantri

There is a BIG difference between knowing what needs to be done and DOING what needs to be done.

— Anonymous

“if you’re going to make a mistake, you should err on the side of action.”

— Marc Cameron

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

— Maria Bello

“Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.”

— Ryan Lilly

Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts.

— Anonymous

When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action.

— Marshall Sylver

Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

— Ornette Coleman

Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

— John Chancellor

“Confidence is what you gain after taking action, not before.”

— Felecia Etienne

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

— Samuel Johnson

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

— Sophocles

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

— Tim Ferriss