Action Quotes
Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.T. S. Eliot
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.B. C. Forbes
Rhetoric 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 Roosevelt
Dreams have as much influence as actions.Stephane Mallarme
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.Noam Chomsky, in a television interview
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.Henri Cartier - Bresson
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.Confucius
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe - - The open sesame to every soul.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.Dr. Maxwell Maltz
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.Lois McMaster Bujold
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.Tom Rose
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.Andre Malraux
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.Johann von Goethe
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
All reactionaries are paper tigers.Mao Zedong
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.Theodore Isaac Rubin
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
Thought is the seed of action.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
