5,384 Quotes About Action

The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.

A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

One thing I've found... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.

Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action. She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action.

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just as all being is but a flaw in the perfection of nonbeing. Which is God. For if God is perfection and the only perfection is in nonbeing, then God is nonbeing. Then God is nothing. Nothing can give no basis for the criticism of Thing in its thingness. Then where do you get anything to say? Then where do you get off?

Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.