action

501.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

- Burke, Edmund

502.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

- Carlyle, Thomas

503.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

- Charles de Gaulle

504.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.

- Charles Lamb

505.

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

506.

Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.

- Chris Messina

507.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

- Chuck Palahniuk

508.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

- Chuck Palahniuk

509.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

- Cicero

510.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

- Claude A. Helvetius

511.

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

512.

Reading is no substitute for action.

- Colleen Wainwright

513.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

- Confucius

514.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

- Confucius

515.

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

- Confucius

516.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

- Confucius

517.

[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

- Confucius

518.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

- Dale Carnegie

519.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

- Dean Koontz

520.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer