Action Quotes
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.Anne Frank
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.Louis A. Allen
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.Pythagoras
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 and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.Grace Speare
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.Henry Mille
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.Epictetus, Enchiridion
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, Chapter 2
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.Laertius Diogenes
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.Antonio Gramsci
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
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
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
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
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
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
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.Oscar Wilde
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.Karen Horney
What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god.William Shakespeare
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
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude A. Helvetius
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.Russell L. Ackoff
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
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
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.Herbert Hoove
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)
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - Namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
