Action Quote by C. S. Lewis

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not…

— Cameron Dokey

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

— David Graeber

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the…

— Baron d'Holbach

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

— Albert Einstein

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

— Thomas Jefferson

Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

— Margaret Preston

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

— Sophie Swetchine

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

— William Shakespeare

Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

— Dan Millman

Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

— Frederick Lenz