Action Quote by Joseph Addison

“Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have…

— Søren Kierkegaard

We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“Our thought has acquired many bad habits, and one of them is thinking without purpose. Our thinking has become automatic; we are quite satisfied…

— P.D. Ouspensky

We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and…

— Jason Mraz

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving…

— Bertrand Russell

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

— Tryon Edwards

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of…

— Wilhelm Wundt

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what…

— Thucydides

Human action is purposeful behavior.

— Ludwig von Mises

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

— Jasper Johns

Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as…

— Aldous Huxley