Action Quotes

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help ...

Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. C...

I learn by going where I have to go.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ...

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the e...

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the ha...

Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is ...

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on ...

Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneat...

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...

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

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Did nothing in particular And did it very well.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with ...

Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what ...

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we...

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The razor hung between his shoulder-blades from a loop of cotton string round his neck inside his sh...

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the act...

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily al...

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not...

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do u...

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble depend...

...The happy Warrior... is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath...

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands tha...

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

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

I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live ...

There is no avoidance in delay.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a de...

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - o...

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our po...

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught...

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

We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until ...

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life happens at the level of events not words.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.

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

We kept our heads down and did our jobs. We controlled the only thing we could, which was the show. ...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdepende...

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connec...

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to ...

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

He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids l...

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is th...

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to...

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted...

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by perform...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason,...

Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced i...

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing tem...

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, a...

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are impo...

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect...

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don't ...

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it lea...

Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given t...

When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she...

...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, s...

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and sec...

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

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