Action Quotes

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I'm going to do my own thing.'

Action is the antidote to despair.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The proof that one truly believes is in action.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Men argue. Nature acts.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action

Be the change you want to see.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

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.

Either move or be moved.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

The shortest answer is doing.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

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.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

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.

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

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving 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.

Actions lie louder than words.

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, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Great actions speak great minds.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Reading is good, action is better.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

God helps those who help themselves.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

If you want to get along, go along.

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.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

Leadership is an action, not a position.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

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

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The test of any man lies in action.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

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

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs —apart from discernment —a certain greatness to find him.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

To live is not breathing it is action.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

Courage follows action.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

Action makes more fortune than caution

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.

You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

My reputation grows with every failure.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

I learn by going where I have to go.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Tomorrow let us do or die!

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Don't just think, do.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil — far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.

The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

The word Action! frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

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

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

I say that justice is truth in action.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The beginning is half of every action

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or"¦I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

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

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if we value freedom, there's only one conclusion. It's time to get rid of this leftover relic we call Government.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. . . .Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.