Action Quotes
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.John Stuart Mill
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.Author Unknown
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.John Wooden
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.Patrick Overton
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.Napoleon Hill
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.William Carlos Williams
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
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
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.Andy Warhol
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
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.Plotinus
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.Ezra Loomis Pound
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.Edward W. Howe
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.Henri Cartier - Bresson
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.Dan Kelly
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
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
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.Bhagavad Gita
Action is the antidote to despair.Joan Baez
Action is only coarsened thought - Thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.Henri Frdric Amiel
The ancestor of every action is a thought.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Theresa
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.Nikos Kazantzakis
