action

541.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

- Evenius

542.

Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer.

- Ezra Pound

543.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

- Fran Lebowitz

544.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

- Francis Hutcheson

545.

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

546.

Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

547.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

548.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

- Friedrich Engels

549.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it

- G. B. Shaw

550.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

551.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

- George Bernard Shaw

552.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars'unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off _in medias res_. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.

- George Eliot

553.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

- George Washington

554.

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

- Grace Speare

555.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

- Harold Geneen

556.

Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation.

- Henri Bergson

557.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

- Henri Bergson

558.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

- Henry Miller

559.

All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

560.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

- Herbert Hoover