5,384 Quotes About Action

Never confuse Motion with Action.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

The principle of giving should become a mandate for action for the Christians of the last days