action

601.

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

- John Le Carre

602.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

- John Locke

603.

The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

- John Locke

604.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

- John Locke

605.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

- John Locke

606.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

- John Steinbeck

607.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

- John Steinbeck

608.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

- John Stuart Mill

609.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

- Johnson

610.

Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.

- Jonathan Miller

611.

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

- Jose Antonio Burciaga

612.

We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.

- Joshua L. Chamberlain

613.

Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

- Juliene Berk

614.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Jung

615.

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

- Karen Horney

616.

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action.

- Kevin Costner

617.

Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.

- Kreeshna

618.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

- Lao-tzu

619.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

620.

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

- Lawrence J. Peters