Action Quotes

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
Russell L. Ackoff
Leonardo davinci - just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does...
Henry wadsworth longfellow - all the means of action - the shapeless masses -...
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.
Jean Nathan Mille
Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.
Malcom Mclaren
Leonardo da vinci, the notebooks - iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its...
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
Jane Austen
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.
Michael Dorris
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.
Tom Rose
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
Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction... You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
Juliene Berk
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. Forbes
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
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
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo DaVinci
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude A. Helvetius
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.
Jan Ehrenwald.
Habits - The only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
Juliene Berk
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Gustav Jung
What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.
Tony Kushne
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
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