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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
-Rene Char
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
-G. K. Chesterton
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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
-Ching Ning Chu
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
-Luc De Clapiers
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
-Georges Clemenceau
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
-Georges Clemenceau
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Life's rewards go to those who let their actions rise above their excuses.
-Lee J. Colan
Orchestrating Attitude
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The great thing is the start -- to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer -- and him for nothing.
-Robert Collier
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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
-Robert Collier
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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
-Robert Collier
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
-Confucius
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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
-Russel H. Conwell
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
-Georges Courteline
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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
-Norman Cousins
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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
-Stephen Covey
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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
-Benedetto Croce
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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
-Trammell Crow
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
-Joan L. Curcio
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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
-D'Alembert
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It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.
-Dalai Lama
The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom
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Books about Action(s)
