Quotes
Quotes about Action
Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral Made the attraction, and the black the woe; There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.
The only cure for grief is action.
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.
Sow an action, reap a habit.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of thier satisfaction.
The only cure for grief is action.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.
We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success.
