Action Quotes

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

- Stevie Wonder

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You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself. (The Wizard of Oz)

- Frank L. Baum

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Freedom lies in bold action.

- Robert Frost

‎Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

- Wim Wenders

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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

- Booker T. Washington

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

- Pauline Kael

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

- Vaclav Havel

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

- Nathaniel Branden

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Action is eloquence.

- William Shakespeare

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

- Aristotle

Think globally, act locally.

- Rene Dubos

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde

Actions lie louder than words.

- Carolyn Wells

Live truth instead of expressing it.

- Elbert Hubbard

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from the meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world that they want to live in.

- Marshall Rosenberg

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -- in our own lives and those of others.

- Sharon Salzberg

Action expresses priorities.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill

Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti