Action Quotes
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
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 beginning is the half of every action.Greek Prove
The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.Dr. Henry Gibbons
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.Joseph Conrad
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.Noam Chomsky, in a television interview
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Louis D. Brandeis
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
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural lawImmanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.Anne Frank
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.Immanuel Kant
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear - Sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.Vaclav Havel
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
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.
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
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
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.Charles Horton Cooley
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.Dominique de Menil
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.George Bernard Shaw
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.Unknown
