Action quotes

“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.” Blaise Pascal

“Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.” Blaise Pascal

“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.” Chuck Palahniuk

“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.” Colin Powell

“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.” Colin Powell

“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.” Pope John Paul II

“Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.” Mitt Romney

“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Ronald Reagan

“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.” Ayn Rand

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.” Ayn Rand

“Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.” Ayn Rand

“It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.” Theodore Roosevelt

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.” Tony Robbins

“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?” Tony Robbins

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” Tony Robbins

“Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.” Tony Robbins

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” Tony Robbins

“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” Tony Robbins

“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.” Rumi

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.” Bill Gates

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Action is character.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.” Charles Darwin

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.” Bertrand Russell

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.” William Blake