Quotes on Action

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

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 meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who they are, the Truth within.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.