Action Quotes
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.Moliere
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.Henry Mille
Dreams have as much influence as actions.Stephane Mallarme
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
Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.Charles De Gaulle
The beginning is the half of every action.Greek Prove
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
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
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
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.John Fellows Akers
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Jung
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned Hand
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.Louis A. Allen
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
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.Sir Winston Churchill
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
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
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.Amanda Cross
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
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.Samuel Smiles
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.Francesco Guicciardini
