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Quotes about Action


Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.

Alberic

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

Bertolt Brecht

Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement.

William Shakespeare

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Salman Rushdie

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton

Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

Charles Mackay

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Brontë

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

Marion Woodman

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

John Dewey

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

Lily Virgil

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.

William Shakespeare

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. 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

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Howard Cosell

Domestic and social violence usually starts off with a few angry words and a few hurt feelings that don't get resolved, then escalates into feelings of betrayal, rage and revenge. Inner feelings of rage soon spill over into all aspects of society. Social stress multiplies daily with every new report of political upheaval, child abuse, drug abuse, workplace violence, children bringing guns to school, homelessness, ethnic wars or some other crisis. The root cause of a lot of these social stresses is the inner violence created by dysfunctional communication between the heart and the mind. As social stress increases, we're faced with a choice: Retreat into fear and isolation, become angry and bitter, try to ignore it all, or take responsibility for our own stress reactions. Bobby Jagdev For peace, we must prepare for war. Slade Whitfield -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

David Seabury

Love cannot remain by itself— it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

Mother Teresa

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

Oscar Wilde

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

Gideon Wurdz

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