{"id":84113,"date":"2018-09-10T21:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2020-11-16T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:30:15","slug":"action-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/action-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Action quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. Baltasar Graci\u00e1n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.<\/span>
\nAlex Noble<\/span><\/p>\n

Action should culminate in wisdom, or is it action is a culmination of wisdom.<\/span>
\nBhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.<\/span>
\nBhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.<\/span>
\nAlfred Adler<\/span><\/p>\n

Talk doesn’t cook rice. <\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>
\nbrave actions.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions,<\/span>
\nhabit, reason, passion, desire.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.<\/span>
\nAlfred North Whitehead<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. <\/span>
\nWilliam J. Lock<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>
\nown efforts.<\/span>
\nHannah Arendt<\/span><\/p>\n

Action without a name, a “who” attached to it, is meaningless.<\/span>
\nHannah Arendt<\/span><\/p>\n

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. <\/span>
\nBaltasar Graci\u00e1n<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>
\ntake upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.<\/span>
\nSt. Thomas Aquinas<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohn Anster<\/span><\/p>\n

Effective action is always unjust.<\/span>
\nJean Anouilh<\/span><\/p>\n

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.<\/span>
\nAnais Nin<\/span><\/p>\n

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.<\/span>
\nAnatole France<\/span><\/p>\n

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. <\/span>
\nLewis Cass<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. <\/span>
\nCalvin Coolidge<\/span><\/p>\n

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more<\/span>
\nsatisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension.<\/span>
\nKathleen Tierney Andrus<\/span><\/p>\n

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.<\/span>
\nHenri Frederic Amiel<\/span><\/p>\n

You must do the things you think you cannot do.<\/span>
\nEleanor Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.<\/span>
\nHenri Frederic Amiel<\/span><\/p>\n

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by<\/span>
\nreflection, criticism, and doubt.<\/span>
\nHenri Frederic Amiel<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.<\/span>
\nLouis A. Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.<\/span>
\nNoelie Alito<\/span><\/p>\n

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.<\/span>
\nDante Alighieri<\/span><\/p>\n

All know the way; few actually walk it. <\/span>
\nBodhidharma<\/span><\/p>\n

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others<\/span>
\nsay about him.<\/span>
\nLeo Aikman<\/span><\/p>\n

I am one of those people who can’t help getting a kick out of life — even when it’s a kick in the<\/span>
\nteeth.<\/span>
\nPolly Adler<\/span><\/p>\n

Life happens at the level of events, not words.<\/span>
\nAlfred Adler<\/span><\/p>\n

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they<\/span>
\nretire.<\/span>
\nCharles Francis Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.<\/span>
\nHenri L. Bergson<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.<\/span>
\nSally Berger<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.<\/span>
\nCharles Baudelaire<\/span><\/p>\n

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.<\/span>
\nAl Batt<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that He only gives it to us<\/span>
\nmoment by moment. He would not have thee waste it.<\/span>
\nAmelia E. Barr<\/span><\/p>\n

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.<\/span>
\nToni Cade Bambara<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.<\/span>
\nHonore De Balzac<\/span><\/p>\n

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency<\/span>
\nin your life.<\/span>
\nLes Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Take action in order to move toward your goals.<\/span>
\nLes Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. <\/span>
\nS\u00e9bastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort<\/span><\/p>\n

It was prettily devised of Aesop, “The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!”<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The good that is in you is the good that you do for others.<\/span>
\nRoger Babson<\/span><\/p>\n

To begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.<\/span>
\nDecimus Magnus Ausonius<\/span><\/p>\n

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Let your performance do the thinking.<\/span>
\nH. Jackson Brown Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just<\/span>
\ndig.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.<\/span>
\nRed Auerbach<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. <\/span>
\nWalter Anderson<\/span><\/p>\n

In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his <\/span>fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.<\/span>
\nW. H. Auden<\/span><\/p>\n

You can never get enough of the things you don’t need, because the things you don’t need can never satisfy.<\/span>
\nMarvin J. Ashton<\/span><\/p>\n

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.<\/span>
\nMatthew Arnold<\/span><\/p>\n

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Well begun is half done.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave<\/span>
\nby performing brave action.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.<\/span>
\nAnne Byrhhe<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.<\/span>
\nWarren Buffett<\/span><\/p>\n

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action;<\/span>
\nand they will make it if they cannot find it.<\/span>
\nCharlotte Bronte<\/span><\/p>\n

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