Action Quotes
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
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.John Locke
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.Michael Dorris
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 only cure for grief is action.George Henry Lewes
All reactionaries are paper tigers.Mao Zedong
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.Author Unknown
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.Kabbalah
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
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear - Sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.Vaclav Havel
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
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.Charles Horton Cooley
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
Action is the antidote to despair.Joan Baez
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
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.Sir Winston Churchill
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.Immanuel Kant
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
The beginning is the half of every action.Greek Prove
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
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
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Theresa
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
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
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.Anthony Robbins
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.Jawaharlal Nehru
The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.Andre Gide
