Action Quotes

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

Unknown

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

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

When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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.

The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

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

Jean Paul Richte

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS

Action is only coarsened thought - Thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

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

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses".

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

G. B. Shaw

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - Namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Kahlil Gibran

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

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

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

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

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hortense Calishe

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

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

Anthony Robbins

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

Japanese Prove

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

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

Bhagavad Gita