Action Quotes

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Francis Hutcheson
Juliene berk - habits... the only reason they persist is that...
Alfred north whitehead - we cannot think first and act afterward. from the...
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
Dorothy day, the long loneliness, 1952 - i have long since come to believe that people...
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
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
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
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.
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
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
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decto
Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.
Anthony Robbins
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
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward De Bono
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoove
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
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Evenius
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
I Ching
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.
Dr. Henry Gibbons
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell