Action Quotes

Jackie mason - by these things examine thyself. by whose rules...
Johann kaspar lavate - it is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the...
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
Tom rose - successful men are defined by thier actions;...
The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decto
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
Laertius Diogenes
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
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Samuel Johnson
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini
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
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
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.
Jan Ehrenwald.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
John Fellows Akers
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Lao Tzu
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
Thomas Traherne
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - - From foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
Jean de la Bruyere
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.
Author Unknown
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Oscar Wilde
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. Trevelyan
We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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 DaVinci
Justice is the truth in action.
Jeseph Joubert
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