Action Quotes
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
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
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.Mother Theresa
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo DaVinci
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.Anne Frank
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
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
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.Unknown
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.Dan Kelly
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.Dr.
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.Jim Sorensen
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Jung
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
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.Nikos Kazantzakis
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.Epictetus, Enchiridion
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 Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.Francesco Guicciardini
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.Bhagavad Gita
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
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
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
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".
Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.Malcom Mclaren
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
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
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Gustav Jung
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe - - The open sesame to every soul.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.Jonathan Mille
