Action Quotes

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

Peter Brodie

The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

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

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee

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

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

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

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

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John Fellows Akers

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

Andre Malraux

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Francis Hutcheson

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.

Samuel Johnson

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

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

William Faulkne

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Cicero

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.

Horace Bushnell

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Midge Decto

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle, Politics