Action Quotes

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Bhagavad Gita

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

Johann von Goethe

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Karen Horney

Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.

Dan Kelly

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

Tryon Edwards

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

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

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

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky, in a television interview

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles de Gaulle

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

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

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calishe

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

Unknown

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Anthony Robbins

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.

Epictetus, Enchiridion

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne