Action Quotes

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.

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

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Reading is good, action is better.

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.

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 would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

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

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.