Quotes
Quotes about Action
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.
Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words?
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
