Quotes About Action

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa

“The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― C.G. Jung

“Action expresses priorities.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request

“Yes We Can!”
― Barack Obama

“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
― Joseph Campbell

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Essential Kahlil Gibran

“It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”
― Karl Marx, The German Ideology

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

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― Theodore Roosevelt

“My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World

“In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
― Aristotle, Selected Works

“When your action is gone, and all that’s left is motionlessness, I’ll be there, whistling.
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― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks