action quotes

“I never worry about action, but only inaction. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ”

— Honore de Balzac

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

— William James

“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

— James Russell Lowell

“I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.”

— Mick Jagger

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”

— Mother Teresa

“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”

“The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.”

“The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”

“Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.”

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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

— Salvador Dali

“When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.”

— Woody Allen

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ”

“A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. ”

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”

“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.”

“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. ”

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”

“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.”

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”

— Frank Herbert

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.”

— Corliss Lamont

“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”

— Agatha Christie

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