Action Quotes
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.Herbert Hoove
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.Bhagavad Gita
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
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
Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.Malcom Mclaren
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.G. B. Shaw
Every law is an infraction of liberty.Jeremy Bentham
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
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
The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.Dr. Henry Gibbons
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
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
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.Akhenaton
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
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
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
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.Bhagavad Gita
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.Pythagoras
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.
Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
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
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.Jan Ehrenwald.
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.Maitri Upanishads
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
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
