Action Quotes

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

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.

Joseph Conrad

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

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

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Arthur W. Radford

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Karen Horney

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

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Herbert Hoove

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Anthony Robbins

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

G. M. Trevelyan

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John Fellows Akers

We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

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

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

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

Jose Antonio Burciaga