Action Quotes

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to… — David Hume
It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there… — Bertrand Russell
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror… — Tacitus
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and… — George Santayana
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. — Mother Teresa
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop… — Derrick Jensen
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. — Bradley Whitford
To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical. — Ayn Rand
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure. — Thornton Wilder
Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what… — Leymah Gbowee
Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it. — Henry George Bohn
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their… — Aristotle
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion,… — Thomas Carlyle
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge.… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things… — William Bernbach
Leadership is an action, not a position. — Donald McGannon

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