Action Quotes
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.Antonio Gramsci
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.Ezra Loomis Pound
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.Bhagavad Gita
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
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, "Memory", 1996
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
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.Herbert Hoove
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.Pythagoras
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.Kahlil Gibran
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
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.Evenius
What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.Tony Kushne
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long - Range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.John F. Kennedy
The only cure for grief is action.George Henry Lewes
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.Hugh Prathe
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.Alfred A. Montapert
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Jung
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.Bhagavad Gita
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.Dr.
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.Nikos Kazantzakis
