Action Quotes

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

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

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

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

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

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.

...one cannot lodge in if.

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

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

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

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

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.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.

The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.

If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

New Customers come from the action of past customers

It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Speech is the image of actions

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Listening is love in action.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.

Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.

Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.