Action Quotes
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.Johnson
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
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.Leonardo DaVinci
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.Charles Lam
The ancestor of every action is a thought.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.Bergen Evans
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.Amanda Cross
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.Author Unknown
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
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
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.Michael Dorris
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.Andy Warhol
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.Edward W. Howe
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.Kabbalah
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
All reactionaries are paper tigers.Mao Zedong
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.Jim Sorensen
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.Alfred North Whitehead
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
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.Evenius
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
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.Jan Ehrenwald.
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.Henri Frdric Amiel
