Action quotes

“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.” Sigmund Freud

“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.” Dale Carnegie

“There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?” Phyllis Diller

“We should seek the greatest value of our action.” Stephen Hawking

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

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

“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.” Plato

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

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

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

“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.” Aristotle

“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.” Aristotle

“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.” Aristotle

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

“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.” Salvador Dali

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

“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.” Honore de Balzac

“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.” Honore de Balzac

“One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.” Aldous Huxley

“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

“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.” Victor Hugo

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.” Victor Hugo

“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.” Victor Hugo

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