Reflection Without Action Quotes

#1. But reflection without action is ultimately as unproductive as action without reflection.

Robert Kegan

#2. I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

Gautama Buddha

#3. P68- when a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into an alienated and alienating "blah". It becomes an empty word that cant denounce the world.

Paulo Freire

#4. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful global garden for our children. Every person, molecule, and THING matters. All of our separate actions are a reflection of the actions of the whole.

Suzy Kassem

#5. Just as reflection disappears to the extent that thought and action take the form of automatic habits, it awakes only when accepted habits become disorganized.

Emile Durkheim

#6. TRY TO LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AT HOME BEFORE BED. DID I DO EVERYTHING TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY TODAY? WAS I HONEST ABOUT EVERY ACTION AND WORD SPOKEN TODAY? REALLY? WHO YOU LYIN' TO? YOURSELF? THAT'S PRETTY LAME. I'LL TRY HARDER TOMORROW. JUST DON'T USE! DON'T. USE.

Duff McKagan

#7. Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Mollie Marti

#8. Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

Paulo Freire

#9. If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Margaret Heffernan

#11. Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction.

Debasish Mridha

#12. The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.

Johan Huizinga

#13. Liberation is a praxis : the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Paulo Freire

#14. Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#16. The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes
use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.

Benito Perez Galdos