A Quote by G. M. Trevelyan

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

G. M. Trevelyan

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G. M. Trevelyan
English - Historian
February 16, 1876 - July 21, 1962

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

James Allen

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Vaclav Havel

The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

Georgy Zhukov

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Thomas Huxley

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Newell Dwight Hillis

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

Maria Edgeworth

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

Henry George

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Brad Warner

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

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