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Action Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
- The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.
- The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the…
- Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards…
- Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent…
- There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,…
- Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
- All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they…
- In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and…
- In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in…
- When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is…
- Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism…
- We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word…
- The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a…
- Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
- It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to…
- The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
- The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the…
- Successful action tends to become an end in itself
More Action Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius