Action Quotes
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.Lord Jeffery
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.Leonardo DaVinci
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.Karen Horney
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.Richard Milhous Nixon
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.Jonathan Mille
Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3 8 of a paragraph.S? ren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift
The ancestor of every action is a thought.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.Demosthenes
Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.Richard Milhous Nixon
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.Unknown
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.Confucius
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned Hand
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.George Bernard Shaw
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.Stephen Covey
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.Patrick Overton
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
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
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao Tzu
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
