5,384 Quotes About Action

It isn’t always the treasure that drives men down deep into the sea; it’s something else, something unexplainable, even to them.

Emotion triggers action, good or otherwise

Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

It has taken my whole life thus far to see how being brave enough to hold on to a question, brave enough to never stop looking for answers, and brave enough to take action even when I didn’t know the right answer, was as brave as I needed to be to succeed and to succeed with love.

I would like to show that we can become so much more through awareness. That is why I speak of conscious evolution. If we understand ourselves, how we think and react, why we do things... Then we can work out how to think more constructively, act more usefully, do things more easily, become more of the person we really want to be deep down inside.

Given that media has become fast-paced, readers now want books that show the action and don’t just tell you what is happening. Modern readers don’t want three pages of descriptions of a farmhouse. They want to hear the door’s creak quiet the chirping of crickets out in the cornfield, they want to feel the cool air drift through the house, then they want to see the shadow of a man, gun drawn, standing over the bed of his disloyal lover.

Power of dreams is not measured by the frequency of dreaming, but by speed of actions to make them come true.

The gun bounced so much in her shaky grasp that if she did fire, he’d likely be the one to catch the bullet.