Action Quotes
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Louis D. Brandeis
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.Nikos Kazantzakis
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]
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.William Bolitho
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - Namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.Demosthenes
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.Oscar Wilde
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
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
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
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.Stephen Covey
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.Oscar Wilde
Action is the antidote to despair.Joan Baez
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.Johnson
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.Richard Milhous Nixon
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.Erich Fromm
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.Leonardo DaVinci
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
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
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.Jim Sorensen
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id 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
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
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
