Action Quotes

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

Peter Brodie

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

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long - Range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

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

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

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

Bergen Evans

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

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

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

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".

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

Strong reasons make strong actions.

William Shakespeare

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

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

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels

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

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles, Trachiniae

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Karen Horney

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Abraham Harold Maslow

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Woody Allen

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Cicero

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

My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

Ronald Reagan

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

Kabbalah

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non - Action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Lu Yen