Action Quotes

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.

Horace Bushnell

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams

Action is only coarsened thought - Thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Henri Frdric Amiel

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

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

Socrates

Habits - The only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Juliene Berk

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Malcom Mclaren

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

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

John Locke

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

Bertrand Russell

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Jung

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

Andre Malraux

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

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

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

Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.

Jonathan Mille

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Sophocles, Trachiniae

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.

Unknown

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

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

Leo Braeck

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Herbert Hoove

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

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

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

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, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Charles Horton Cooley

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie