Action Quotes

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

People need encouragement to take action.

So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Effective action is always unjust.

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

Prayer is the preview of God's action.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.

Two people may have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling; it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves-that is the state of ultimate love.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

An intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to an action.

Take action now, because tomorrow never comes.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn from.

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

Act now, for now is all you have.

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.