Action Quotes

Thought is the seed of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

Oscar Wilde

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

Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

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.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo DaVinci

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Samuel Smiles

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)

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

Sophocles

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

William Fullbright

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

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Cicero

The perfect man of action, is the suicide.

William Carlos Williams

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.

Unknown

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Charles Horton Cooley

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939

The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

John Dewey