Action Quotes

Hannah arendt - forgiveness is the key to action and freedom....
George bernard shaw - there is no satisfaction in hanging a man who...
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Abigail adams, letter to her sister, mary smith cranch, 1784 - i begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in...
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
Lord Jeffery
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Lord Tennyson
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Edward W. Howe
Words divide us, actions unite us.
Slogan of the Tupamaros
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
Patrick Overton
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
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.
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
Confucius
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 self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Theresa
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Prove
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
Jean Paul Richte
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prathe
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Theresa
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Zedong
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
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
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude A. Helvetius
Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.
Malcom Mclaren