Action Quotes

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of Singham, I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

Make your best thoughts into action.

God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

...one cannot lodge in if.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

Never over think! Make a decision and take action!

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives.

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.

I'm lucky, because I started action movies at the age of 25. Now I'm 47, and I'm still kicking like a mule, and I'm as flexible as before.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

If you the American citizen leave a child in a hot car and that child was harmed by that you will be charged with negligence even if your action was unintentional.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.