Action Quotes
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao Tzu
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.G. M. Trevelyan
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.Kahlil Gibran
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.Henri Cartier - Bresson
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
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
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.Nikos Kazantzakis
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
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
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.Thomas Traherne
If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.Laertius Diogenes
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
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
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.Victor Hugo
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
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
Action is eloquence.William Shakespeare
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
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.Henry Mille
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.Michael Dorris
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.Charles Lam
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.Stephen Covey
Never mistake motion for action.Ernest Hemingway
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
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
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
