Action Quotes
People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.Chuck Palahniuk
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.Bertrand Russell
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude A. Helvetius
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.Charles Horton Cooley
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.Patrick Overton
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.Martin Luthe
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.Evenius
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
All reactionaries are paper tigers.Mao Zedong
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Gustav Jung
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.Nelson Mandela
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.Oscar Wilde
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
Action is only coarsened thought - Thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.Henri Frdric Amiel
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
Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.Charles De Gaulle
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
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
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.Theodore Isaac Rubin
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
