Action Quotes

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

Justice is the truth in action.

Jeseph Joubert

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luthe

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

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

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Johnson

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.

Charles De Gaulle

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Marshal Tito

Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.

Dan Kelly

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

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles de Gaulle

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spence

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Prove

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

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, Radio speech, 1939

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

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 have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo DaVinci

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.

Bertrand Russell

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

The beginning is the half of every action.

Greek Prove

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.

Bhagavad Gita

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles