Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.
Greta ThunbergThought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia WoolfI believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Paulo CoelhoOur main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas CarlyleHuman beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert EinsteinThe effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
Joe BidenMeditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
Thich Nhat HanhA good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. PattonYou can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
Ray BradburyAction may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William JamesKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheExperience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin DisraeliNo sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.
Franz KafkaRhetoric 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 RooseveltNature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDon’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody AllenYou must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale CarnegieOmnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.
Alan WattsWhat you don’t do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor RooseveltAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin DisraeliTo see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
ConfuciusIt is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.
Maya AngelouThe end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas CarlyleI never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston ChurchillNever mistake motion for action.
Ernest HemingwayThis is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.
Keanu ReevesOur faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.
Joyce MeyerEvery art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
AristotleThe 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 PowellIdeas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
John C. MaxwellThe right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSo many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel JohnsonTo learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.
Stephen CoveyConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas CarlyleThe most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia EarhartFreedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
Hunter S. ThompsonEven if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will RogersThe original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.
Richard P. FeynmanWe must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George EliotI have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerEffective action is always unjust.
Maya AngelouTalk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas CarlyleIn action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur SchopenhauerAct, and God will act.
Joan of ArcDoing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John RuskinWhen I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.
George W. BushTake time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon BonaparteToday we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
Ronald ReaganYou see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
BonoYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack LondonThe 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 PowellWe should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen HawkingThe way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt DisneyMan is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin DisraeliNothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJustice is truth in action.
Benjamin DisraeliWisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca