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Action Quotes by William James
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into…
- You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock…
- Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several…
- The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
- When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must…
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
- Action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action... we can directly regulate the feeling.
- Our beliefs are really rules for action.
- I will act as if I do make a difference.
- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
- If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
- Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it…
- Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
- Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
- Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
More Action Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — 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
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- 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