Action Quotes - page 2

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. (John Dewey)
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. View quote
Woody Allen
Action is the real measure of intelligence. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. View quote
Anthony Robbins
The ancestor of every action is a thought. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
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 honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. View quote
Frank Herbert
I never worry about action, but only about inaction. View quote
Winston Churchill
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? (Arthur Miller)
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. View quote
Peter Drucker
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test, which is not fanciful save by trial. View quote
Sophocles
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. View quote
Giorgos Seferis
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' (Thornton Wilder)
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. View quote
Bruce Lee
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. View quote
Gore Vidal
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
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