Action Quotes

Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

Be an all-out, not a hold-out.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.

Every man's actions belong to him.

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

I think it must be hard being David [Tennant]. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Saying is one thing and doing is another

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

You can't judge the many by the actions of the few.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Action and becoming are one.

Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.