Action Quotes

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles de Gaulle
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. — George Santayana
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to… — Samuel Johnson
Action is thought tempered by illusion. — Elbert Hubbard
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with… — Joseph Addison
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. — Paulo Coelho
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. — Alan Cohen
It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever… — Dalai Lama
Action and becoming are one. — Meister Eckhart
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does… — Thomas A. Edison
The legs are the wheels of creativity. — Albert Einstein
Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results. — T. Harv Eker
Creativity is the ability to see and to respond. — Erich Fromm
Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. — Bill Gates
Action has magic, grace and power in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. — Nhat Hanh
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you. — Susan Jeffers

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