Action Quotes

S? ren kierkegaard, asluttende uvidenskabeligt efterskrift - alas! while the speculative honourable professor...
Lord jeffery - a good name, like good will, is got by many...
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
Bhagavad Gita
Dr. maxwell maltz - study the situation thoroughly, go over in your...
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
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Theresa
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
Johann von Goethe
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
People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Sir Winston Churchill
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Francis Hutcheson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Prove
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle, Politics
Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.
Jonathan Mille
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
Akhenaton
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
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
Plutarch
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
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
The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Ezra Loomis Pound
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
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
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prathe
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.
Tom Rose
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
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates