Top 100 Thought To Action Quotes
#1. I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Honore De Balzac
#2. The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
B.C. Forbes
#3. One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer
#4. Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.
Ian McClellan
#5. Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there it goes taking away the darkness!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. The fact that you lack the fruits is not a proof that you don't have seeds. It's not too late to drop your potentials into a good soil. Do it now; harvest awaits you soon!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#9. Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction ...
Harriet Martineau
#10. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Haruki Murakami
#11. A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
Aristotle.
#12. Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#13. When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.
Z. Vally
#14. A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.
Jules Verne
#15. The more useful approach is to ask, "Is this thought helpful? Does it help me take action to create the life I want?" If it's helpful, pay attention. If it's not, defuse it.
Russ Harris
#16. But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification.
Herbert Marcuse
#18. We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#19. You don't need to provide answers to question like "why were you born?". Be committed to what excites you and what excites you will provide the answers!
Israelmore Ayivor
#20. So do you want your life to "take off"? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be-and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.
Marlo Morgan
#21. Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action.
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
Benazir Bhutto
#23. When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
Comte De Lautreamont
#24. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.
Marianne Williamson
#26. We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever.
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.
Jim Rohn
#28. How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. A static action is never an action. A real action is an action in motion! Dare to do something!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#31. All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.
Leo Strauss
#32. Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
#33. Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, that which all things aim at.
Aristotle.
#34. True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#35. 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
#36. We must act to free our minds, not think.
Marty Rubin
#37. Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
Suzanne Fields
#38. If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.
James Freeman Clarke
#39. The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#40. All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology.
[Johnny Truant]
Mark Z. Danielewski
#41. For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#42. That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.
Tom Kelley
#43. This is the day the Lord himself has made! Do something on it before it begins to fade! Do something you have said! Do it before it's time for bed!
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. God rewards a person not for the deeds he does openly, but according to the thoughts and actions he has in secret.
Sunday Adelaja
#45. Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. An idea leads to a thought. The repeated thought leads to a feeling and the feeling leads to a new decision and the decision leads to a new behavior and the new behavior leads to a new action thus new results. See
Steve Robinson
#47. At the end of the day, developing goodness comes down to a simple question: Will this emotion, thought or action, increase or decrease my capacity for goodness?
Gudjon Bergmann
#49. If you don't figure out your main reason of being born, chances are that, you will fall into another plan which is unlikely to make you to print out your bigger picture!
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. [We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.
Simone Weil
#51. The waiter repeated, The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you'd enjoy them. They are called Secrets.
Milly Silver
#52. Feeling good" is your way of telling yourself that your last thought was truth, that your last word was wisdom, that your last action was love. To measure how highly you have evolved, simply look to see what makes you "feel good.
Neale Donald Walsch
#53. I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.
Nick Offerman
#54. I have always thought that the role of the film-maker is to present the argument persuasively, emotionally and coherently and then it is over to the viewer, they are either convinced or not convinced, moved or not moved and they decide whether they will take action or not.
Franny Armstrong
#55. It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
Honore De Balzac
#56. The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.
Allan Dare Pearce
#59. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.
Mary Baker Eddy
#60. We sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.
Alice Hegan Rice
#61. Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#62. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#64. If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls all outer action. When you get the right attitude, the outer world of results and personalities must conform to it. That is the law of mind-action.
Catherine Ponder
#65. Emotions are at the nexus of thought and action, of self and other, of person and environment, of biology and culture. Emotion is a term that evokes many connotations, from the way we "feel" to the ways our lives are integrated across time.
Diana Fosha
#66. Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.
Michel Foucault
#67. In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has been a constant and steady decline of man in art, in thought, in action. The world is pooped out: there isn't a dry fart left.
Henry Miller
#68. The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. 'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.
Robert Gottlieb
#70. Watch out; success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. ...and led me to finally recognise that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment.
Nikola Tesla
#72. The moment comes when protest is not enough; reason must give way to action, and force ensure what thought has conceived.
Victor Hugo
#73. I went back to Holland and I thought 'Ok, now I made so many movies in Hollywood, I know how special effects work, how to do action for not a lot of money, and I have all of these skills now.' It was something in Holland that nobody dared to touch.
Roel Reine
#74. The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.
Aristotle.
#76. What do you always think about? What do you think you can do easily? What do you find peace in your heart to do? Watch those things carefully because among them is something on which you can turn the entire environment surrounding you for your success.
Israelmore Ayivor
#77. Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).
Julien Benda
#78. Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.
Josh Hartnett
#79. I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.
Dan Abnett
#80. NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
Horace Mann
#81. When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.
Robin Sharma
#83. Dreams can either die young or mature to become realities depending on how they are handled!
Israelmore Ayivor
#84. The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
John Jay Chapman
#85. At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.
Wynn Bullock
#86. Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
Laozi
#87. Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!
Napoleon Hill
#88. She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.
Henry James
#89. There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
Charles Baudelaire
#90. Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy
Samuel Johnson
#91. 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
#92. Poor Fa'a, I said, although my answer was more reflexive than anything else. He was a good, kind person, and although I thought he was being melodramatic, I appreciated his compassion. In the absence of action, Poor Fa'a seemed to be the only thing to say.
Hanya Yanagihara
#93. Though the man of action, the politician, may sometimes pay no attention to the results of this examination, the man of thought will never cease to inquire into all things accessible to human intelligence. And in the long run thought must determine action.
Ludwig Von Mises
#94. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic
Winston S. Churchill
#95. My intellect, my wit - I'd forgotten I'd even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company of others who prized thought over action, laughter over brooding, they blossomed and sharpened. My tongue fairly tripped with sparkling phrases, insightful comments.
Melanie Benjamin
#96. To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#97. Sociology should ... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.
Talcott Parsons
#98. Break every boundary with your inner passion and you will get there successfully. Resist every chance to give up ... Believe you can ... Rise up after every fall ... Be willing to win!
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. Convince is for thought; persuade is for action. You couldn't convince me that taping my horrible old-lady voice was a good idea, but you persuaded me to do it anyway, didn't you, you little dickens?
Monica Wood
#100. Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.
Herbert Simon
