action quotes

“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

“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.”

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

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

“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

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