Action Quotes
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.G. B. Shaw
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.Antonio Gramsci
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Louis D. Brandeis
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.John Fellows Akers
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.Frank Tibolt
Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.Dan Kelly
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
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.Napoleon Hill
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.Thomas Carlyle
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.Jawaharlal Nehru
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.Confucius
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.Andre Malraux
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.B. C. Forbes
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god.William Shakespeare
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
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
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
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
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.John Locke
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.Bergen Evans
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude A. Helvetius
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.Immanuel Kant
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses".
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
