Action Quotes

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

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

Confucius

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

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

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

Bhagavad Gita

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

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

Kahlil Gibran

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

Tryon Edwards

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Malcom Mclaren

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

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Stephen Covey

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Japanese Prove

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Sir Winston Churchill

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

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

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".

Thought is the seed of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spence

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Francesco Guicciardini

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo DaVinci

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.