quotations about action
Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature
Every act is an expression of one's self.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Musashi
The bridge of life is built on the scaffold of action, but rests finally on the piers of results.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.
D. WILLIAMS
"Action", The National Magazine, Dec. 1854
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
HENRI BERGSON
speech at the Descartes Conference in Paris, 1937
Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
HANNAH ARENDT
The Human Condition
Let us do or die.
JOHN FLETCHER
The Island Princess
Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
A Perfect Spy
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Patrick Henry, Jan. 15, 1799
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
The only things you control are your actions. You decided to get down about something. That means you can also decide to do something that cheers you up.
DARIUS FOROUX
"7 Ways to Instantly Feel 10X Better", Huffington Post, March 1, 2016
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Action is eloquence.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Coriolanus
Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
attributed, Papa Hemingway
Your actions are like a beacon of light that other staff can aspire to follow and depend upon for guidance.
MAHMUD MOHAMMED
"Nigeria: Budget Constraint Crippling the Judiciary, Says CJN", All Africa, September 6, 2016
When you act with a genuine heart, everything will fall into place.
RUBY LIM
"Imbibing the discipline of kendo", The Star Online, February 24, 2016
It is so easy to do a dirty thing with self-satisfaction when it consists in abstaining from action.
LORD ACTON
letter to Mary Gladstone, June 1, 1880