Action Quotes
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
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
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
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.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.Jawaharlal Nehru
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.Andre Malraux
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Habits - The only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.Juliene Berk
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.Thomas Carlyle
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
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
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.Epictetus, Enchiridion
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.Tom Rose
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
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.Leonardo DaVinci
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.Carl Gustav Jung
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
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
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.Joel Barke
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
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
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction... You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.Juliene Berk
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.Bertrand Russell
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.Francesco Guicciardini
