Action Quotes - page 5

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease. (Elizabeth Gaskell)
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. View quote
Dale Carnegie
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. View quote
Sai Baba of Shirdi
I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise. View quote
Traci Bingham
A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature. View quote
Nhat Hanh
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine. View quote
George Herbert
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. View quote
Bertrand Russell
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. (Jules Verne)
Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at the peril of being judged not to have lived. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. View quote
Václav Havel
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. View quote
William Osler
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
God isn't dead - he's just missing in action. View quote
Phil Ochs
Action is the foundational key to all success. View quote
Anthony Robbins
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. (Wole Soyinka)
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action. View quote
Thucydides
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. View quote
Salman Rushdie
We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the economic superpower and military superpower of the planet. That's just not going to happen, ... We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the France of the 21st century a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability. View quote
Mitt Romney
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. View quote
Swami Sivananda