Action Quotes

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

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

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

Malcom Mclaren

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calishe

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

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

Leo Braeck

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Thomas Aquinas

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Johann von Goethe

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Tony Robbins

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

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

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

John Locke

The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

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

Jung

The perfect man of action, is the suicide.

William Carlos Williams

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.

Dan Kelly

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde

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

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

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

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

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

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