Action Quotes

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

Life, Dreams, Together

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand

Goal, Worth, Desire

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

Thought, Enough, Same

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance, Nothing, Terrible

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.
William James

Feeling, Together, Control

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack Obama

Failure, America, Far

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life, Sense, Move

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

Happiness, May, Bring

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Inevitable, Mark

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Inevitable, Mark

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell

Beautiful, Single, Lovely

I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
Robert H. Schuller

Dreams, True, Rich

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

Time, Thinking, Stop

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Learning, Learn, Ability

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden

Life, Deep, Him

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein

Funny, Men, Strong

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton

Equal, Reaction, Opposed

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.
W. H. Auden

Life, May, Ignore

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo

Someone, Pleasant, Commit

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

Victory, Creative, High

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Work, Great, Heart

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.
Herbert Hoover

Depression, Cannot, Themselves

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Himself, Risk, Urges

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
Todd English

Sports, Energy, Often

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
Abbe Pierre

Women, Men, Fight

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle

End, Talk, Suppressed

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Ambrose Bierce

Seek, Decided, Approval

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Truth, True

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