Quotes for: action

Quotes for: action

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valéry - Tel quel

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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.
Simone de Beauvoir

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.
Hannah Arendt

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir

My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.
Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers

Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

To act freely is to retake possession of oneself; it is to place oneself back in pure duration.
Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

It is doubtless a fine harmony when doing and saying go together.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To love is to act.
Victor Hugo

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Finding the right words at the right moment is action.
Hannah Arendt

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

From science comes foresight, from foresight action.
Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

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Action creates more fortunes than prudence.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

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There is only one proof of ability: doing it.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

As soon as an individual takes an action, whatever that action may be, it begins to escape from his intentions.
Edgar Morin