"In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire."

Adams, Charles Francis on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 25 fans >>

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Alito, Noelie on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 10 fans >>

"The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place."

Allen, Loius A. on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 32 fans >>

"Effective action is always unjust."

Anouilh, Jean on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

Anster, John on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 5 fans >>

"Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts."

Arendt, Hannah on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."

Arendt, Hannah on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 7 fans >>

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

Aristotle on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 9 fans >>

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 10 fans >>

"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 9 fans >>

"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 11 fans >>

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 12 fans >>

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

Aurelius, Marcus on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."

Aurelius, Marcus on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 5 fans >>

"It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! "

Bacon, Francis on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence."

Balzac, Honore De on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

Batt, Al on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 6 fans >>

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

Berger, Sally on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 9 fans >>

"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."

Bergson, Henri L. on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 6 fans >>

"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."

Besant, Annie on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature."

Bhagavad Gita on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]"

Bible on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]"

Bible on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]"

Bible on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full."

Bible on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"You can't aim a duck to death."

Boardman, Gael on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 6 fans >>

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Bronowski, Jacob on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"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."

Bronte, Charlotte on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Let your performance do the thinking."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."

Brown, Les on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 7 fans >>