Action Quotes - page 4

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. (Honoré de Balzac)
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. View quote
Saskya Pandita
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. View quote
Conrad Hilton
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness. View quote
Francis Hutcheson
Action expresses priorities. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. View quote
José Martí
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. View quote
James K. Polk
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. View quote
William James
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. (Henry David Thoreau)
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. View quote
Susan Sontag
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. View quote
Edmund Burke
We should seek the greatest value of our action. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. View quote
Herbert Simon
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. (Adam Ferguson)
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. View quote
Henry Miller
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. View quote
George W. Bush