Action Quotes: Inspiring Words to Ignite Action (Page 3)

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

"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

"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action"

Confucius, Philosopher

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps"

Confucius, Philosopher

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

"Action and reaction are equal and opposite"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action"

Samuel Smiles, Author

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

Samuel Smiles, Author

"I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action"

Mae West, Actress

"Effective action is always unjust"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Good managers have a bias for action"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction"

Will Rogers, Actor

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"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

"Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

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