Action Quotes

Erich fromm - the history of man is a graveyard of great...
Harold geneen, chairman, itt corp. - leadership is practiced not so much in words as...
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Bhagavad Gita
Greek prove - the beginning is the half of every action....
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.
Dr.
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
Bhagavad Gita
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
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 best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Phillips Brooks
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.
Dan Kelly
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
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
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward De Bono
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
Patrick Overton
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Mille
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
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
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
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe
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
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Charles Horton Cooley
The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.
Dr. Henry Gibbons
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
Andre Malraux
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
Leo Tolstoy
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
Thought is the seed of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
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