Action Quotes
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
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
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.Karen Horney
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
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
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.William Carlos Williams
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.Bhagavad Gita
Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3 8 of a paragraph.S? ren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.Lord Jeffery
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.Alfred A. Montapert
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
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
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long - Range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.John F. Kennedy
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
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
The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.Ezra Loomis Pound
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.Edward W. Howe
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.La Rochefoucauld
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
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, Radio speech, 1939
The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.Dr. Henry Gibbons
Action is eloquence.William Shakespeare
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Theresa
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
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Louis D. Brandeis
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
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
