Action Quotes

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.

What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.

Who needs action when you got words?

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

Right attitudes produces right action

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

Action is character.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.