Action Quotes
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
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.Oscar Wilde
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
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.Karen Horney
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.Friedrich Engels
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
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.Pythagoras
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
Never confuse movement with action.Ernest Hemingway
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.Russell L. Ackoff
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.Stephen Covey
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
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.Francesco Guicciardini
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.Bhagavad Gita
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non - Action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.Lu Yen
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.Richard Milhous Nixon
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles
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
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.Nelson Mandela
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.Abraham Harold Maslow
Strong reasons make strong actions.William Shakespeare
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.M. R. Vincent
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
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
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?Alfred A. Montapert
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.John Fellows Akers
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
