Thought Vs Action Quotes

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

When politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say, 'No more.'

Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

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

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.