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Sagt av |
| Bara genom handling får livet betydelse. | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Bär varje dag en hink grus till samma ställe, och du kan bygga ett berg. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| De flesta människor har lättare för att utföra stora gärningar än goda gärningar. | Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Den goda gärningen räddar världen. | Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) |
| Den onda gärningen sätter sina spår, och den bli döjlt av hela denna jord | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Det bästa sättet att bevara minnen av goda gärningar, är att skaffa sig nya. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Din gärning ska vittna för dig. | Arnulf Overland |
| Du blir aldrig färdig med en god gärning. Aldrig. Den måste göras om och om igen resten av livet. | Olav Duun (1876-1939) |
| Du har makt över en handling, men aldrig över dess frukter. | Bhagavadgita |
| Du måste göra det som du inte tror du kan göra. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| En god gärning går sällan ostraffat | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| En god gärning är sin egen belöning. | Sofokles |
| En liten man tror att små goda gärningar är betydelselösa, och gör dem inte - och att små onda gärningar inte skadar, och gör dem. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| En som gör en god gärning och ger sig själv vackra namn, kommer att föda förbannelse. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Första steget med en fin tanke, andra steget med ett gott ord och tredje steget med goda avsikter; så stiger jag in i Paradiset. | Zoroaster |
| Goda gärningar ger oss själva styrka och inspirerar goda gärningar hos andra. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Goda handlingar är gjorda av små gärningar. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Gör inget väsen av en god gärning du gjort, utan gå vidare till nästa. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Handla endast efter den maxim om vilken du samtidigt kan vilja att den upphöjdes till allmän lag. | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| Hemligheten med att få saker gjorde är att agera. | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
| Mer än denna lykta lyser i mörkret, lyser en verkligt god gärning i en mörk värld. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Människan är utgångspunkten för sina handlingar. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Människans mål är en handling och inte tanke. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| När det är uppenbart att målen inte kan nås, ändra inte målen, ändra sättet du försöker på. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Ofta gör man orätt inte bara genom att handla, utan genom att inte handla. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Rista goda gärningar i marmor - onda gärningar i sand | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Rådför dig inte med någon när du vill göra en god gärning. | Tyrkisk Ordtak |
| Språket avbildar handling. | Solon (638 f.Kr.-559 f.Kr.) |
| Talet är bilden av handling. | Solon (638 f.Kr.-559 f.Kr.) |
| Tvivlar du på om en handling är bra eller dålig, avstå från den. | Zarathustra (600 f.Kr.-) |
| Tänk inte, handla bara. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Varje god gärning bär frukt, om än inte den man väntat. | Fredrik Georg Gade (1855-1933) |
| Välsignad är han som funnit sin gärning. Låt hoonom inte önska sig annan välsignelse | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Godt gjort er bedre end godt sagt. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Det er endog bedre at handle hurtigt og fejle end at tøve, til tidspunktet for handling er passeret. | Carl von Clausewitz |
| Det er lige så vigtigt at handle efter at have tænkt, som at tænke før man handler | Georg Wulff |
| Den, som aldrig gør en fejl, gør ikke så meget andet heller | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Folk, der kommer frem i denne verden, er folk, der ser sig om efter de forhold, de ønsker sig, og hvis de ikke er der, skaber de dem. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Hvor man lærer sig selv at kende? Aldrig gennem meditation. Men gennem handling | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Menneskets bedste ven er dets 10 fingre. | Robert Collyer |
| Livets store mål er ikke viden men handling. | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| Aldrig forveksle bevægelse medf handling. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. | Albert Bandura (1925-) |
| Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. | Alexander Haig (1924-) |
| Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. | Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) |
| Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious. | Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) |
| A life which does not go into action is a failure | Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) |
| Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
| Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. | Bergen Evans (1904-1978) |
| Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. | Billie Jean King (1943-) |
| For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. | Bob Wells (1966-) |
| The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have | Brian Koslow |
| Actions lie louder than words. | Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) |
| Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) |
| Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. | Charles Horton Cooley |
| Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. | Conrad Hilton (1887-1979) |
| Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. | Dale Evans Rogers |
| Act honestly, and answer boldly | Danish Proverb |
| The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised, to notice that there is something funny going on | David Gelernter |
| Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results | Dennis Wholey |
| Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) |
| Act as if it were impossible to fail | Dorthea Brande |
| Activity of the nervous system improves the capacity for activity, just as exercising a muscle makes it stronger. | Dr. Ralph Gerard |
| Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do. | Edward Finlason |
| Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity | Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880) |
| Affirmative action is the attempt to deal with malignant racism by instituting benign racism | Elliott Larson |
| To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it | Emanuel Swedenborg |
| Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. | Ernest Gaines |
| Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers | Francis Hutcheson |
| Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. | Frank Outlaw |
| We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. | Frank Tibolt |
| An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. | Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) |
| The only cure for grief is action. | G. H. Lewes (1817-1878) |
| Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. | G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) |
| We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of | George Chapman (1559-1634) |
| Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. | Greg Anderson (1964-) |
| Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. | Harold S. Geneen (1910-1997) |
| Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Promise little and do much | Hebrew Proverb |
| Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. | Henry Anatole Grunwald |
| To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, | Horace Walpole (1717-1797) |
| We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| All men of action are dreamers. | James Gibbons Huneker (1860-1921) |
| If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time. | Janice Markowitz |
| Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. | Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) |
| Action is the antidote to despair. | Joan Baez (1941-) |
| One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking | John Burroughs (1837-1921) |
| Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good. | John Chancellor |
| The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing | John Clare (1793-1864) |
| We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. | John Dykes |
| A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it | John Galsworthy (1867-1933) |
| Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions that have achieved some degree of clarity | John Macquarie |
| As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. | John Maxwell (1512-1583) |
| Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness | John Sterling (1806-) |
| Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. | Karen Horney (1885-1952) |
| All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. | Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) |
| Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. | Billings Learned Hand (1872-1961) |
| Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one | Lord Jeffrey |
| 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. | Lu Yen |
| The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. | Mark Yost |
| As we become full persons, our knack for "right actions" and good judgment blossoms | Marsha Sinetar |
| The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. | Merle Shain |
| It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) |
| Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve | Pehyl Hsieh |
| We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed. | Peter Brooks |
| Action conquers fear. | Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
| Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it | Phillip Brooks |
| The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. | Red Auerbach (1917-) |
| The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range. | Rene Veaux |
| High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. | Dr. Robert H. Schuller (1926-) |
| Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the | H. Ross Perot (1930-) |
| In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. | Guillaume de Salluste |
| When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy | Salman Rushdie (1947-) |
| Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action. | Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
| There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities. | Sam Ervin (1896-1985) |
| I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes | Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) |
| Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. | Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) |
| Dreams have as much influence as actions | Stephane Mallarme |
| While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. | Stephen R. Covey |
| Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions | Thomas Brooks |
| Action makes more fortune than caution | Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues (1715-1747) |
| The most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. | William Burnham |
| The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. | William Dean Howells (1837-1920) |
| There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Taking the first footstep with a good thought the second with a good word and the third with a good deed I entered Paradise | Zoroaster |
| Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. | Akhenaton (1968-) |
| Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. | Akhenaton (1968-) |
| People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances. | Albert Bandura (1925-) |
| I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. | Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Actions speak louder than words | African-American Proverb |
| Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. | Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875) |
| Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| Never confuse motion with action. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The wise sees knowledge and action as one; they see truly | Bhagavad Gita |
| Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity (1 John 3:18). | Bible |
| Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. | Brendan Francis |
| Honest hearts produce honest actions. | Brigham Young (1801-1877) |
| A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about | Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) |
| The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it | Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) |
| 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. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. | Diane Arbus (1923-1971) |
| It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something. | Duke Ellington (1899-1974) |
| Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Ah just act the way ah feel. | Elvis Presley (1935-1977) |
| A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. | George Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it | Georg Wilhelm Hegel |
| The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions | Georg Wilhelm Hegel |
| You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| The men of action are, after all only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. | Japanese Proverb |
| A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day. | Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) |
| Be great in act, as you have been in thought. | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain | Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) |
| Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. | Jim Rohn |
| He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| He is incapable of a truly good action that finds not a pleasure in contemplating the actions of others | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| Doubt can only be removed by action. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| 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 on the world. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - like the effect of a fog or moonshine - gives to things exagg | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| No cause of action arises from a bare promise | Legal Maxim |
| Action expresses priorities. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. | Maxwell Maltz |
| What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
| In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. | Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess |
| Don't wait. The time will never be just right. | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| Action is the foundational key to all success. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| To know and not to do is not to know | Afghan Proverb |
| The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. | Rita Mae Brown (1944-) |
| Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all | Robert M. Pirsig |
| The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain. | Robert Townsend (1957-) |
| I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it. | Ronaldo (1976-) |
| Actions are visible, though motives are secret | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance | Terence (195 f.Kr.-159 f.Kr.) |
| Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses | Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues (1715-1747) |
| My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. | W. Clement Stone (1902-2002) |
| We talk on principle, but we act on interest | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
| What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being. | William Bernbach (1911-1982) |
| We must be doing something to be happy. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. | William James (1842-1910) |
| By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction | William Osler (1849-1919) |
| Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit | William Temple, Sr. |
| The thing to do is to supply light and not heat | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. | Frank Outlaw |
| It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow | Brian Koslow |
| The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have | Brian Koslow |
| All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities. | Sam Ervin (1896-1985) |
| Effective action is always unjust. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| Dreams have as much influence as actions | Stephane Mallarme |
| Activity of the nervous system improves the capacity for activity, just as exercising a muscle makes it stronger. | Dr. Ralph Gerard |
| There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance | Terence (195 f.Kr.-159 f.Kr.) |
| We talk on principle, but we act on interest | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
| I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain | Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) |
| If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. | Martha Graham (1894-1991) |
| Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do. | Edward Finlason |
| The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. | Diane Arbus (1923-1971) |
| Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the | H. Ross Perot (1930-) |
| I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain | Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) |
| If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. | Martha Graham (1894-1991) |
| We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Deeds are fruits, words are leaves | English Proverb |
| Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. | John Dykes |
| Brave deeds are wasted when hidden | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it's warmth. | The Talmud |
| Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th | The Talmud |
| Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| The wish is the father of the deed | African-American Proverb |
| The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| A good deed is the best prayer | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| The deed is everything, the glory is naught. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. | William Feather (1889-1981) |
| Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. | Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) |
| If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. | Anthony Robbins (1960-) |
| Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? | Arthur Miller (1915-2005) |
| There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature. | Bhagavad Gita |
| Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction (The translation follows thusKarmani ave adhikars te--you have the power to act onlyma phalesu kadachana--you do not have the power to influence the resultma karmaphal hetur bhoo--therefore you must act without the anticipation of the resultma sangostu akramani--without succumbing to inaction) | Bhagavad Gita |
| Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you." | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| I don't step on toes, LittleJohn, I step on necks! | Chuck Norris (1940-) |
| One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something. | Duke Ellington (1899-1974) |
| Council before action. | Dutch Proverb |
| We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. | Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) |
| The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, “Where is he at?” By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing—“Carry a message to Garcia!” | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| Never mistake motion for action. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can. | Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) |
| ‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| 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 (1732-1799) |
| Aman who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe. | Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good | Greek proverb |
| When in doubt do something. | Harry Chapin (1942-1981) |
| All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Postpone not a good action | Irish Sayings |
| Why the hell don'tcha, instead of keep saying it? | J. D. Salinger (1919-) |
| Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| 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 on the world. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. | Karen Horney (1885-1952) |
| I have to act to live. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| He who hesitates is a damned fool. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle. | Martha Graham (1894-1991) |
| We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. | Martin Niemoeller |
| When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Nothing will work unless you do. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| Action is the real measure of intelligence. | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Action without thought is like shooting without aim. | Proverb |
| There is no beauty but the beauty of action. | Proverb |
| Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it. | Ronaldo (1976-) |
| We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. | Rush Limbaugh (1951-) |
| We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes | Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) |
| This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action. | Scott Allen (1948-) |
| No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| The value of an idea lies in the using of it. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions | Thomas Brooks |
| A man is not good or bad for one action | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep | Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-) |
| There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done it better than anyone | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The most sublime act is to set another before you. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Action is eloquence. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
| I never worry about action, but only about inaction | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| When you do more than what you are paid for, you will soon be paid more for what you do. | Zig Ziglar |
| En sjef må være klar over at hans medarbeidere studerer det han gjør, ikke det han sier. | Lars Malm |