Action Quotes

Lord jeffery - a good name, like good will, is got by many...
Haile selassie - throughout history, it has been the inaction of...
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
Patrick overton - watch your thoughts they become words. watch your...
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
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
Andre Malraux
Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
T. S. Eliot
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
Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.
Jonathan Mille
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
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
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.
John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
Thought is the seed of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoove
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
Jean Paul Richte
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.
Jean Nathan Mille
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.
John Fellows Akers
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
Erich Fromm
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
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
Marshal Tito
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.
Unknown
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
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
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.
Karen Horney
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
Richard Milhous Nixon
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi