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Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them

Anon.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.

Millard Fuller

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Edward Young

The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails.

Lois McMaster Bujold

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Joel Barker

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.

Midge Dector

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Charles Horton Cooley

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Lu Yen

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Colin Powell

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Bhagavad Gita

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Roger Kahn

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Bhagavad Gita

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

Japanese Proverb

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Vaclav Havel

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Eric Hoffer

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Maitri Upanishads

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Henri Bergson

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

Jeseph Joubert

Justice is the truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Johann von Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Greek Proverb

The beginning is the half of every action.

Johann von Goethe

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

Adam De L'Isle

I have thought too much to stoop to action.

Witold Gombrowicz

Do you want to know who you are Don't ask. Act Action will delineate and define you.

E. M. Cioran

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the seed of action.

Hannah Arendt

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

Unknown

An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.

Karen Horney

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Rodney Dangerfield

One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Sophocles

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.

Anthony Robbins

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Carl Weick

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Samuel Smiles

Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action.

Bhagavad Gita

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

William Bolitho

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Joseph Conrad

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.

Arthur W. Radford

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would cre

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

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

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

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

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Action is eloquence.

The only cure for grief is action.

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Never mistake motion for action.

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

The perfect man of action, is the suicide.

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Never mistake motion for action...

Action is the foundational key to all success.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Never confuse movement with action.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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

For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.

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

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

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

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

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

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.