Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Action Quotes - Part2

Quotes Source
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.Alfred North
He who limps is still walking.Joan Rivers 
Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.Peter Levi 
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.Charles Adams 
The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.Louis A. Allen 
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.Henri F Amiel 
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.Henri Amiel 
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.St. Thomas Aquinas 
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.Hannah Arendt 
It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''Francis Bacon 

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