Action Quotes
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
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.Thomas Traherne
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.Author Unknown
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses".
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it.Charlotte Bronte
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.Bhagavad Gita
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.Jim Rohn
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.Dan Kelly
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.Lord Jeffery
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.Alfred A. Montapert
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.Richard Milhous Nixon
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.Lyndon B. Johnson
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.William Bolitho
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.Joseph Conrad
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
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
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
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
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
