Action quotes

“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

“ Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.” Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

“I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.” Fidel Castro

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

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

“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

“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.” Gore Vidal

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” Pablo Picasso

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” Leonardo da Vinci

“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” Confucius

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.” Confucius

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” Confucius

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” Confucius

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

“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” Norman Vincent Peale

“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.” Norman Vincent Peale

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

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” Thomas Jefferson

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” Thomas Jefferson

“The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.” Andre Gide

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

“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

“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.” Sigmund Freud

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.” Sigmund Freud