Action Quotes
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 people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.Jonathan Mille
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.Alfred North Whitehead
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
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
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
Thought is the seed of action.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear - Sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.Vaclav Havel
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Gustav Jung
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.Lois McMaster Bujold
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
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 actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.Louis A. Allen
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
The only cure for grief is action.George Henry Lewes
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
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.Joseph Conrad
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.Fran Lebowitz
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.Unknown
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.Richard Milhous Nixon
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
All reactionaries are paper tigers.Mao Zedong
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.Evenius
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
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.Theodore Roosevelt
