Action quotes

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.” Francis Bacon

“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?” Jon Stewart

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.” Ayrton Senna

“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.” Charles Stanley

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.” John Steinbeck

“The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.” Michael Jordan

“So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.” Donald Trump

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” Andy Warhol

“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” Andy Warhol

“Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.” Virginia Woolf

“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.” Walt Whitman

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.” John Adams

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.” Marcus Aurelius

“Goals help you channel your energy into action.” Les Brown

“Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.” Ambrose Bierce

“Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.” Ambrose Bierce

“When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.” George Washington Carver

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” Margaret Mead

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.” Napoleon Hill

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” James Russell Lowell

“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” William Clement Stone

“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” Jack Welch