Action Quotes

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

I am an affirmative action hire.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either.

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

There's action only if there is danger.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves

Believe me, it is actions that count.

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

Without action, the world would still be an idea.

Large action arrest small action.

I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Emotion is created by motion.

Leadership is an action, not a position.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

Reading is good, action is better.