Action Quotes
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.Thomas Aquinas
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.Leonardo DaVinci
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
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
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
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
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
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
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
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Habits - The only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.Juliene Berk
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses".
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.Samuel Smiles
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
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.John Fellows Akers
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.Oscar Wilde
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.Bhagavad Gita
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
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.Evenius
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.Carl Weick
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.Kahlil Gibran
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.Jane Austen
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
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
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.Friedrich August von Hayek
