Action Quotes

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Bhagavad Gita

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Mille

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

Confucius

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

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

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Anthony Robbins

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Carl Gustav Jung

One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950

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

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tyron Edwards

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Claude A. Helvetius

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

William Faulkne

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

Confucius

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is 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

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Carl Weick

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

Jung

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

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

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo DaVinci

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Lord Tennyson

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Evenius

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

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

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

Hortense Calishe

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10