Action Quotes
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.Antonio Gramsci
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
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
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
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.Samuel Smiles
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.Bhagavad Gita
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
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
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
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
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non - Action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.Lu Yen
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
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long - Range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.John F. Kennedy
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
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.W. M. L. Jay
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
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
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.Andre Gide
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.Oscar Wilde
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.Bhagavad Gita
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
Action is eloquence.William Shakespeare
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.Victor Hugo
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.Confucius
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.G. B. Shaw
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.Thomas H. Huxley
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
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.Thomas Aquinas
The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.Ezra Loomis Pound
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.Louis A. Allen
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
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
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
