Action Quotes

Lewis f. powell, jr. - history balances the frustration of how far we...
Johann von goethe - nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in...
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barke
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses".
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Louis A. Allen
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
Unknown
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
Alfred A. Montapert
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.
Karen Horney
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
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
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
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen Covey
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.
Unknown
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
Charles Lam
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Habits - The only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
Juliene Berk
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
Jim Sorensen
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id 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
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere
People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk
Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction... You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
Juliene Berk
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.
Indira Nehru Gandhi
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Oscar Wilde
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.
Jose Antonio Burciaga
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
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