Action Quotes

He who considers too much will perform little.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don’t wait for a convenient time. It can’t be overemphasized.

Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention.

At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because it just makes me really conscious of my action.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

Output always equals input.

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.