I have thought too much to stoop to action.
Adam De L’Isle
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.
Anonymous
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anthony Robbins
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
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Carl Weick
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Charles Horton Cooley
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
E. M. Cioran
Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails.
Edward Young
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The beginning is the half of every action.
Greek Proverb
Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.
Hannah Arendt
Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
Justice is the truth in action.
Jeseph Joubert
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
Joseph Conrad
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney
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
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
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
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.
Maitri Upanishads
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Dector
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
Nikos Kazantzakis
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.
Rodney Dangerfield
Enthusiasm…the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.
Unknown
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
Vaclav Havel
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho
Do you want to know who you are Don’t ask. Act Action will delineate and define you.
Witold Gombrowicz