Action Quotes
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.Jawaharlal Nehru
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
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.Hannah Arendt
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
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
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.Immanuel Kant
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Theresa
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
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
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.Oscar Wilde
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.Bhagavad Gita
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
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
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
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.La Rochefoucauld
Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.Dan Kelly
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
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
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
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.
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.Maitri Upanishads
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.Johnson
