Action Quotes
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
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
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.Jane Austen
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.Thomas Aquinas
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
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.Michael Hanson
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!Sterne
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
Strong reasons make strong actions.William Shakespeare
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.Amanda Cross
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
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Habits - The only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.Juliene Berk
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
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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 life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.Dan Kelly
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.Johann von Goethe
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
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, The Way of Lao - Tzu
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.Dominique de Menil
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
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams
