Quotes
Quotes about Action
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
But thus: if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush and tyranny Tremble at patience.
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Personal power is the ability to take action.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.
Justice is truth in action.
The consequences of our actions take hold of us quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have "improved".
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Leadership is an action, not a position.
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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.
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.
