Human Action Quotes
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REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human's destination
— Sunday Adelaja
It is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.
— Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.
— Walter Hill
Evry human being want changes, but most human beings lack actions, and no change comes without action.
— Hamzat Haruna Ribah
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.
— Karl Barth
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
— Chiang Kai-shek
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
— Sigmund Freud
We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.
— Jeff Daniels
The medium is the message because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
— Marshall McLuhan
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
— Noam Chomsky
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
— Albert Einstein
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.
— Jeremy Siegel
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
— Albert Bandura
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.
— John Powell
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.
— Eckhart Tolle
I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
— Action Bronson
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
— Clarence Darrow
Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.
— Oskar Morgenstern
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.
— Pentti Linkola
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nature does not rush things, humans do; when we rush things, we often miss the lessons nature embedded in it
— Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
History is a record of human nature in action.
— James Carlos Blake
When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.
— Majid Kazmi
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
— Horst Koehler
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
— Jean Vanier
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.
— George Saunders
It wasn't him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.
— Tomasz Chrusciel
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
— Abraham Lincoln
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
— William Graham Sumner
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.
— Swami Vivekananda
"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."
— Leo Buscaglia
The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
— R.C. Sproul
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
There you are; human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We are all like that.
— Dale Carnegie
She's got zero interest in honest-to-goodness human-on-human action. No. It's magic farmyard creatures or nothing for her.
— Charlie Brooker
Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.
— Dalai Lama
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action ...
— Cory Doctorow
The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.
— Ernest Becker
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
— Paulo Coelho
All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.
— Aristotle.
We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.
— V.S. Pritchett
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
— Herman Melville
The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.
— Lowell Milken
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.
— Paul Kingsnorth
All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
— Walter Raleigh
Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.
— Babatunde Olatunji
It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.
— Dianna Hardy
Human action is purposeful behavior.
— Ludwig Von Mises
So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
— Madame De Stael
The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action
— Cindy Gallop
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
— Thornton Wilder
Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
— Vicente Fox
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
— Graciela Chichilnisky
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
— Camille Paglia
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
— Steve Maraboli
Every action taken by human beings is based in love or fear, not simply those dealing with relationships.
— Neale Donald Walsch
