Action Quotes
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.Anais Nin
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.G. B. Shaw
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.Jawaharlal Nehru
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is 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
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses".
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
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
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.Henri Cartier - Bresson
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.Kahlil Gibran
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.Hannah Arendt
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
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
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
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
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
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
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
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.Carl Weick
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
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
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.T. S. Eliot
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
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.Amanda Cross
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.Friedrich Engels
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
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
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.Pythagoras
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.Joel Barke
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - Namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
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
