Action Quotes
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
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
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
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.Dr. Maxwell Maltz
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
Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.Author Unknown
The ancestor of every action is a thought.Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.Friedrich Engels
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
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.Martin Luthe
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.Andy Warhol
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, Radio speech, 1939
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
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 da Vinci
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.Pythagoras
How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!Sterne
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
Dreams have as much influence as actions.Stephane Mallarme
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.Fran Lebowitz
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
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.Immanuel Kant
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.Charles Horton Cooley
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
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.Bhagavad Gita
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Theresa
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Jung
