Action Quotes
Every law is an infraction of liberty.Jeremy Bentham
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.Andre Malraux
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.John Wooden
Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3 8 of a paragraph.S? ren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.Herbert Hoove
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 the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
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
The only cure for grief is action.George Henry Lewes
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
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
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
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.Stephen Covey
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
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
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
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.Robert Louis Stevenson
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
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
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.Jim Sorensen
Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.Anthony Robbins
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.Jane Addams
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.Karen Horney
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
The beginning is the half of every action.Greek Prove
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
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
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
