Action Quotes
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.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Jung
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
Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.Charles De Gaulle
We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.Lyndon B. Johnson
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.Hortense Calishe
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
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude A. Helvetius
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.Friedrich August von Hayek
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.Charles Horton Cooley
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.Tom Rose
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.Demosthenes
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.Confucius
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.
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
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.Pythagoras
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
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
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.Plotinus
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
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
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.John Stuart Mill
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
Action is eloquence.William Shakespeare
All reactionaries are paper tigers.Mao Zedong
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.G. M. Trevelyan
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
