Action Quotes
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
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
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude A. Helvetius
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
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
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
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
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.John Locke
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.I Ching
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.William Bolitho
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.William Carlos Williams
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
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.Immanuel Kant
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.Jawaharlal Nehru
How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!Sterne
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.Peter Quennell
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
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
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
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.Maitri Upanishads
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Dreams have as much influence as actions.Stephane Mallarme
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
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
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
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.Confucius
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
