Action Quotes

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Tony Robbins

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Theodore Roosevelt

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

Tom Rose

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.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

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

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

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.

Dr.

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3 8 of a paragraph.

S? ren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift

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

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

Dan Kelly

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Kahlil Gibran

Action is only coarsened thought - Thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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