Action Quotes
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.Abraham Harold Maslow
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
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
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.Dominique de Menil
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
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
What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.Tony Kushne
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.Henri Bergson
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned Hand
Dreams have as much influence as actions.Stephane Mallarme
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
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
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.Jim Rohn
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.I Ching
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.Grace Speare
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
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.Isaac Asimov
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
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
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
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.Napoleon Hill
People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.Chuck Palahniuk
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.La Rochefoucauld
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.John Stuart Mill
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.Immanuel Kant
