Action Quotes

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Carl Weick

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Evenius

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

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

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

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

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

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

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

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Malcom Mclaren

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Prove

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

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

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

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

Carl Jung

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

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

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

Erich Fromm

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

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses".

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

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

Confucius