Quotes
Quotes about Action
The number watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Action is eloquence.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
For every action there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
For every action there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
If a person is obviously mentally disabled, such as having Down's syndrome or Alzheimer's, decent people exercise sympathy and understanding in their interactions. So why, if someone merely has a low IQ, is he treated with ridicule and contempt?
He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Never confuse motion with action.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
