Action Quotes
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.M. R. Vincent
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
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.Herbert Hoove
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.Theodore Isaac Rubin
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.Confucius
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
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
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Jung
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.Pythagoras
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned Hand
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.Johann von Goethe
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.Frank Tibolt
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Theresa
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, Jane Eyre, 1847
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.Charles Lam
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
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
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.Kahlil Gibran
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
