[ action Quotes ]
222 Quotations
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
[ Words ]
Abigail Adams
25 votes
The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
[ Action ]
Loius A. Allen
22 votes
You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.
[ Responsibility ]
R. C. Allen
24 votes
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
[ Action ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
22 votes
Effective action is always unjust.
[ Action ]
Jean Anouilh
24 votes
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
[ Action ]
Hannah Arendt
25 votes
A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.
[ Planning ]
John Argenti
23 votes
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
[ Games ]
W. H. Auden
25 votes
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
[ Action ]
Red Auerbach
24 votes
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
[ Reserve ]
Jane Austen
27 votes
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
[ Action ]
Honore De Balzac
24 votes
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
[ Action ]
Al Batt
21 votes
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Jean Baudrillard
16 votes
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
[ Influence ]
Henry Ward Beecher
25 votes
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
Jeremy Bentham
19 votes
Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
[ Reactionaries ]
Aneurin Bevan
22 votes
Action should culminate in wisdom.
[ Wisdom ]
Bhagavad Gita
21 votes
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
[ Misfortunes ]
Ambrose Bierce
21 votes
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
[ Action ]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
19 votes
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
[ Memory ]
James Branch Cabell
18 votes
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
[ Media ]
Bertolt Brecht
21 votes
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
[ Patience ]
Jerry Brown
17 votes
You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
[ Attitude ]
Dr. Jerome Brunner
23 votes
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
[ Action ]
Jean De La Bruyere
17 votes
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
[ Arts and Artists ]
Anthony Burgess
22 votes
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
[ Action ]
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
19 votes
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
[ Life, Lust For ]
Albert Camus
20 votes
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
[ Action ]
Thomas Carlyle
18 votes
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
[ Advice ]
Thomas Carlyle
24 votes
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
[ Action ]
Thomas Carlyle
18 votes
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
[ Purpose ]
Thomas Carlyle
17 votes
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
[ Action ]
Miguel De Cervantes
19 votes
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
[ Action ]
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
17 votes
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
[ Action ]
Rene Char
20 votes