action

561.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

- Herbert Hoover

562.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

- Herman Melville

563.

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

- Holly Lisle

564.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

- Holly Lisle

565.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

566.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.

- Horace Bushnell

567.

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

- Huxley, Thomas H.

568.

They have a saying in Chicago:'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'

- Ian Fleming

569.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

- Igor Stravinsky

570.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

- Immanuel Kant

571.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

- Immanuel Kant

572.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

- Immanuel Kant

573.

One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

- Isaac Asimov

574.

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.

- Isaac Asimov

575.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

576.

Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

- Isaac Newton

577.

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

- J. K. Rowling

578.

We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

- J. William Fulbright

579.

We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

- J. William Fulbright

580.

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

- Jackie Mason