Action Quotes

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles de Gaulle

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Abraham Harold Maslow

Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

T. S. Eliot

Habits - The only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - By finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Juliene Berk

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses".

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

Jim Sorensen

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Tony Robbins

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

The beginning is the half of every action.

Greek Prove

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - - From foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Jean de la Bruyere

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.

Samuel Johnson

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Mille

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Bhagavad Gita

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Arnold Bennett

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978

An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Strong reasons make strong actions.

William Shakespeare

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles, Trachiniae

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

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784