Action Quotes
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.Anthony Robbins
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
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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, The Way of Lao - Tzu
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.Immanuel Kant
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
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.Karen Horney
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.Bergen Evans
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.Oscar Wilde
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
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
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
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.Stephen Covey
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
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.Peter Quennell
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
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.Laertius Diogenes
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Gustav Jung
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
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - - From foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.Jean de la Bruyere
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.Andy Warhol
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 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
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.Martin Luthe
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
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
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.Karen Horney
