action quotes

• There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action. (William Maugham) [life/action]
• Never confuse motion with action. (Benjamin Franklin) [motion/action]
• Action is the foundational key to all success. (Pablo Picasso) [action]
• A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it. (John Galsworthy) [action/state]
• 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/action/wounds/action]
• My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential. (Herbert Hoover) [chance/action/service/land]
• There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. (John F. Kennedy) [action]
• 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) [fear/action/confidence/courage]
• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels) [action]
• Action is eloquence. (William Shakespeare) [action/eloquence]
• Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. (William Wordsworth) [action/action]
• In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. (Charles Francis Adams) [men/action]
• In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. (Hannah Arendt) [revenge/action/process/acts]
• Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. (Hannah Arendt) [action]
• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ( Aristotle) [action/habit]
• Happiness is a sort of action. ( Aristotle) [happiness/action]
• We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. ( Aristotle) [action/action]
• The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. (Francis Bacon) [action/more]
• A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. (Georges Bernanos) [result/action/action]
• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) [action/responsibility]
• It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. (Charlotte Bronte) [human/action/willpower/find]
• The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action. (Albert Camus) [state/action]
• To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. (Albert Camus) [psychology/action/thinking/personality]
• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. (Thomas Carlyle) [action]
• The purpose of man is in action not thought. (Thomas Carlyle) [action]
• Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. (Thomas Carlyle) [action/speech/thoughts/speech]
• The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. (Thomas Carlyle) [action]
• Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. (Thomas Carlyle) [action/depth]
• Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. (Thomas Carlyle) [action]
• 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) [fear/action/confidence/courage]
• In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. (Rene Char) [action]

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