Action Quotes
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.La Rochefoucauld
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
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
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.Karen Horney
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
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.Nikos Kazantzakis
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.Thomas Wolfe
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
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
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.Andy Warhol
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
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
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.Anthony Robbins
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.Carl Weick
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.Plotinus
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.William Carlos Williams
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
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
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
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.Hannah Arendt
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.George Bernard Shaw
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
