Action Quotes

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Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to… — Eileen Caddy
To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a… — Plutarch
Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing. — Gabrielle Roth
Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion.… — Alwin Nikolais
May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such… — Max Ehrmann
Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself. — Laozi
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues… — Andre Gide
Believing requires action. — James E. Faust
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. — Dale Carnegie
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears. — John McCain
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. — Barbara Deming
You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless… — Russell Means
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state. — John Dewey
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men. — Ludwig von Mises
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action… — Immanuel Kant
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general… — George Orwell
Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic… — Woodrow Wilson
Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of… — Bradley Whitford
America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will… — Barack Obama
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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