Top 100 Action Not Quotes
#1. Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.
Harry S. Truman
#2. Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
David J. Schwartz
#3. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Charles J. Givens
#4. This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#5. In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
Roland Allen
#6. The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.
Jerome Bruner
#7. The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.
John Dewey
#8. I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
Rabih Alameddine
#10. Doing nothing is also an action; not making a decision is making a decision.
Bohdi Sanders
#11. A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
#12. Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.
Debasish Mridha
#15. You build a reputation by your action, not by your imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#16. People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.
Birdman
#18. Do not let your emotions rule you," she would say. "Rule them. Emotions are a fuel for action, not the cause of them.
Kevin L. Nielsen
#19. He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction
Timothy B. Tyson
#20. Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.
Tony Robbins
#21. Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#22. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney
#23. She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.
Peter Hedges
#24. The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#25. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Abraham Lincoln
#26. Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#28. Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
Archibald MacLeish
#29. True influence drives action, not just awareness.
Jay Baer
#30. I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.
Piper Laurie
#31. Action, not philosophy will get you going. Pick yourself up and move forward. That is the only way you can still enjoy life while you are blessed to be living it.
Charles F. Glassman
#32. Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.
Ayn Rand
#34. A major consequence of being psychologically asleep is the psychological and spiritual blindness which results from it. This results in action not from conscious awareness and true intelligence but from self-righteousness, which leads individuals and society as a whole into an abysmal pit.
Belsebuub
#36. Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
Maximillian Degenerez
#37. These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.
Noam Chomsky
#38. I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
Randall Kennedy
#39. Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.
Jim Rohn
#40. May you be spurred into action, not just by what you read - but all your Soul is willing to share.
Eleesha
#41. The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.
Jacob Bronowski
#42. Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don't want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won't tell me what I want to hear.
Ann Aguirre
#44. Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.
Tara Brach
#45. Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
Nancy Pelosi
#46. If you deserve it, and repent in action - not in words. I want no more words.
Charles Dickens
#47. Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.
Joyce Meyer
#48. Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.
Dalai Lama
#49. Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.
Iain M. Banks
#50. For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
John Burns
#51. Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#52. True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.
Rabindranath Tagore
#53. In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.
Frederick Lenz
#55. And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia.
Paul Mason
#56. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
Albert Camus
#59. Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!
Shannon L. Alder
#60. To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles.
Debasish Mridha
#62. This is a call to action - not an action that will make things better in six months' time or a year's time, but action that might save someone's life and someone's future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.
Patrick Stewart
#63. Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.
James MacDonald
#65. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#66. And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over narrator of adolescence. The bitter, voice-over voice.
Joanna Pearson
#67. The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
#68. I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff
#69. Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#70. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#71. Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens.
Raneem Kayyali
#72. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
Napoleon Hill
#73. You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
Ram Dass
#74. I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.
Tim Ferriss
#75. I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.
Jason Statham
#76. American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House.
Mick Mulvaney
#77. To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.
Meghan Wier
#78. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#79. We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.
Frederick Lenz
#80. Love is not a feeling, love is a response. Love is an action.
David Jeremiah
#81. I don't care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he's addicted to craps.
Henry Mosquera
#82. The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely indifferent to popular opinion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#83. You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.
Cameron C. Taylor
#84. Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal.
Jeffrey Fry
#85. Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
Soren Kierkegaard
#86. Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#87. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#88. The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
James Hutton
#89. Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
#90. Thereby gain much leisure, and save much trouble, and therefore at every action a man must privately by way of admonition suggest unto himself, What? may not this that now I go about,
Marcus Aurelius
#91. A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
Alanis Morissette
#92. A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without
Moises Naim
#93. We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.
George P. Shultz
#94. For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.
Paul Mooney
#96. The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread to make a show of representing the whole.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#97. The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.
Leo Tolstoy
#98. IP awareness and IP action are two different things, one does not always influence the other.
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#99. The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
#100. Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.
Pierre Alechinsky
