Action Quotes
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural lawImmanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Jung
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.Nelson Mandela
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.Frank Tibolt
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
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
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.Andre Malraux
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
Thought is the seed of action.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.La Rochefoucauld
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.M. R. Vincent
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
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
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
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
Action is only coarsened thought - Thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.Henri Frdric Amiel
The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.Dr. Henry Gibbons
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
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 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
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.Edward De Bono
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.Johann von Goethe
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.Andre Malraux
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
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.Tom Rose
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.Arthur W. Radford
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Gustav Jung
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
