Action Quotes

"The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle"

James Hutton, Scientist

"Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act"

Dave Freudenthal, Politician

"And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time"

David Blunkett, Politician

"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be"

Ann Plato

"Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action"

Susan Collins, Politician

"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero"

Chow Yun-Fat, Actor

"I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face"

Piper Laurie, Actress

"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death"

Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptor

"In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist"

Edward Koch, Politician

"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"A man is not good or bad for one action"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often"

Mark Twain, Author

"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like"

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue"

Cicero, Philosopher

"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"I think that, 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 Sr., Poet

"Action is the foundational key to all success"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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