Action Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Doubt can only be removed by action.

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

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

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

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

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.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

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.

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

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

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I'm just 'bout that action boss.

Act the part and you will become the part.

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.

Escape your situation through your mind and your actions.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action.

The one thing that separates winners from the losers, is , winners take action.

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Insight without action is worthless.

I'd probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.