action quotes

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“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

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