Action Quotes
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.Charles De Gaulle
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.Jane Addams
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.Stephen Covey
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.Lord Jeffery
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.Demosthenes
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.Michael Hanson
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
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
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
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 DaVinci
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.Theodore Isaac Rubin
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.Francesco Guicciardini
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.Oscar Wilde
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.Jim Sorensen
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.Herbert Hoove
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
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.Jim Rohn
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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
Never confuse movement with action.Ernest Hemingway
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe - - The open sesame to every soul.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.Jawaharlal Nehru
Thought is the seed of action.Ralph Waldo Emerson
