Action Quotes

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Arthur W. Radford

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

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.

Leo Braeck

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

William Fullbright

The beginning is the half of every action.

Greek Prove

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Theodore Roosevelt

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tyron Edwards

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Mother Theresa

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3 8 of a paragraph.

S? ren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.

Dr.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calishe

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

William Fullbright

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.

Bertrand Russell

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

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.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo DaVinci

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

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

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Moliere

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Confucius

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