Action Quotes: Inspiring Words to Ignite Action (Page 4)

"The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in"

Andrew Jackson, President

"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not"

William James, Philosopher

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action"

William James, Philosopher

"Action is character"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Never mistake motion for action"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Never confuse movement with action"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow"

John Hutton, Educator

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action"

George P. Baker

"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"There is little more powerful than when truth joins action"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"Action makes more fortune than caution"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Action is the real measure of intelligence"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

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

John Dewey, Philosopher

"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

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