Top 100 Without Action Quotes
#2. 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
#3. Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.
Joseph M. Juran
#4. The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.
Samuel Smiles
#5. Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#7. Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.
Dalai Lama
#8. Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
Javier Bardem
#9. Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field.
Inge Ignatia De Waard
#10. There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning
Reg Revans
#11. The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
C.S. Lewis
#12. That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.
Harry Mulisch
#13. Krishna is wisdom. You are action. One without another is useless. All your battles you will win only when you are together.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#15. You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.
Marcus Aurelius
#16. Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today!
Mary Morrissey
#19. Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#20. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
#21. Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a couple of years ago. Not human exactly. Human-ish. Close enough that she looked awesome without her shirt on.
Charles Yu
#22. We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.
A.J. Darkholme
#23. Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
Kwame Nkrumah
#24. From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.
Robert Dallek
#25. An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just a very long poem.
Daniel Mendelsohn
#26. What terrified her most was the thought that staying alive had become nothing more than a habit. That was it. A reflex action without further or deeper purpose.
Jonathan Maberry
#27. You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.
Anonymous
#28. Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it.
Mary Morrissey
#29. Action without Vision is Blind;
Vision without Action is Lame ...
Richard Marcel I.
#30. There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour, but not altering it entirely.
Tony Blair
#31. If we have the patience to wait until the mud (our mind) settles and the water is clear, if we remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself, the right words will arise, without our thinking about them.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#32. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Mark Twain
#33. The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.
Denis Waitley
#34. Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.
Kara Swisher
#35. You are my father," she said to Averill. "And you are my grandmother," she said to Elena. "And you are duty-bound to me," she said to Nightwalker.
"If you take action against Hunts Alone without my permission, we will be at war.
Cinda Williams Chima
#36. I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.
Winston Churchill
#37. Vision without action is a dream.
Action without vision is simply passing the time.
Action with Vision is making a positive difference.
Joel Baker
#38. Faith without any accompanying action is suspect".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#39. Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty
Frederic Bastiat
#40. My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror ... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
Og Mandino
#41. Learning without action is like wax without honey.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Idries Shah
#42. Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.
Shannon L. Alder
#43. Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
Sivananda
#44. You cannot expect to make an action movie without getting bruises.
Stephanie Sigman
#45. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward
Miguel Ruiz
#46. Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.
Abdul Kalam
#47. Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.
Martin Heinrich
#48. Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#49. But reflection without action is ultimately as unproductive as action without reflection.
Robert Kegan
#50. In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game.
Roumen Bezergianov
#51. I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn't mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.
Dalai Lama XIV
#52. No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.
Li Mu
#53. Principle of Change #5: Without proper action, change cannot occur.
Brett Blumenthal
#54. I know the strategy, I know the logic, I know the way but everything is on theory, but fuck me without action it's just a one peace which isn't assembled!
Deyth Banger
#55. If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.
Jean Chretien
#56. I am not without fear, but courage is taking action despite the fear. Knowing what you want, what you are meant to do, and proceeding despite any knots in your stomach or rocks stuck in your throat. It is walking boldly into the unknown with your chin held high ... even if it quivers.
Rachel Harris
#57. Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?
Tony Robbins
#60. The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
Eknath Easwaran
#61. Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
Jim Rogers
#62. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Joseph Addison
#63. Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation - without the pestilence of panic or fear.
Ryan Holiday
#64. As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
Edward Abbey
#65. Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.
Edward Abbey
#66. Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.
Jaron Lanier
#67. I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas - not consuming those of others.
Paulo Freire
#68. Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.
James A. Belasco
#69. No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?
Robertson Davies
#72. Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.
Steve Fisher
#73. But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Pinball Clemons
#74. Without Action there Will Not be many Chances or changes in our life
Jan Jansen
#75. One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
J. William Fulbright
#76. Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.
Ann Landers
#77. To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting.
Cary Fukunaga
#78. My dear husband Thomas has informed me that I can't walk without natural hip action. The more I slow to adjust my walk, the more my hips determine to swing of their own accord.
Heather Day Gilbert
#80. He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
John McPhee
#81. I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.
Nancy Knowlton
#82. When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.
Jaggi Vasudev
#83. I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.
Will Ferrell
#84. All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#86. Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.
Eugene H. Peterson
#87. This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.
Jeremy Taylor
#88. Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#89. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
Walter Scott
#90. A wall is a defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.
Christopher Moore
#91. Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
Tammy Bruce
#92. Don't be depressed if you feel like a victim of abuse. It is because the abuser knows that your action can get you out of that situation and without depending on anything, live a life within your expectation and beyond.
Denny A
#93. My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
Njabulo S. Ndebele
#94. Action without knowledge can be worse than inaction
Me
#95. Far too many managers have lost sight of the basics, in our opinion: quick action, service to customers, practical innovation, and the fact that you can't get any of these without virtually everyone's commitment.
Tom Peters
#96. Nothing happens by chance no one goes on a quest without a reason without the pull of the magnet there is no action.
Rumi
#97. Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
Al-Ghazali
#98. A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the "power of precision," and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.
Archibald Marwizi
#99. The definition of a person who practices visualization and positive thinking, without taking action: a broke loser.
Robert Rolih
#100. Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
Brian Tracy
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