Action Quotes

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Words divide us, actions unite us. — Unknown Author
Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body — Benjamin Franklin
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. — Aristotle
When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,… — Maya Angelou
You must do the thing you think you cannot do — Eleanor Roosevelt
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob — Ayn Rand
You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions — Ayn Rand
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve — Unknown Author
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. — Leonardo Da Vinci
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is… — Thomas Jefferson
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must… — General George S Patton
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. — Unknown Author
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame… — Mark Twain
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. — Pablo Picasso
You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it. — Samuel Smiles
Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs — Lord Byron
For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten — Chinese Proverbs
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. — Ingrid Bengis

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