Action Quotes

Lois mcmaster bujold - his mother had often said, when you choose an...
William shakespeare - action is eloquence....
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
Jean de la bruyere - discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad...
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
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
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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, Chapter 2
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe
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
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.
Bhagavad Gita
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
Nikos Kazantzakis
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
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
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
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
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
Jane Austen
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
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
Plutarch
Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.
Charles De Gaulle
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
Akhenaton
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
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Andy Warhol