ACTION QUOTES III

quotations about action

So on autopilot are you that your actions are only half conscious at best.

SETH ODELL

"Dip to White: Breaking Through with TV Spots", Inside Higher Ed, September 1, 2016


Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

ANNIE BESANT

Encyclopedia Indica

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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

ANDRE GIDE

Journals

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Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

MARY MCCARTHY

My Confession

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Actions are destiny's pen.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

Dictionary of Proverbs

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The consequences of your actions aren't always clear until much later, and realizing you screwed up when it's already too late can hit hard.

ANDREW WEBSTER

"Life is Strange is my favorite TV show of the year -- except it's a video game", The Verge, October 28, 2015


When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

Jean-Christophe

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How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest cast. His law is action: gates of power stand open in his view; a restless soul, a holy zeal, shall give him entrance through.

D. WILLIAMS

"Action", The National Magazine, Dec. 1854


When people believe you generally have their best interests at heart, you get the benefit of the doubt, and your actions are interpreted more generously.

HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON

"Signs You Might Be a Toxic Colleague", Harvard Business Review, March 2, 2016


Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Jane Eyre

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For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

ANDRE MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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Every act is an expression of one's self.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Musashi

Tags: Eiji Yoshikawa


To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

EMIL CIORAN

History & Utopia

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The bridge of life is built on the scaffold of action, but rests finally on the piers of results.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.

D. WILLIAMS

"Action", The National Magazine, Dec. 1854