Action Quotes

Only super-efforts count.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

Take a moment to gather your thoughts about your situation and ask, "What would Love do?" Then channel that energy in your words and actions.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

Thought and action must never part company.

Whenever you're in doubt about any action, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? You can also ask, what would love do now?

Ideas without action are worthless.

Dissent without action is consent.

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Giving is a powerful action to bring more money into your life, because when you are giving you are saying, "I have plenty."

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.

Action without study is fatal.

You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts.

VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action.

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.