Action Quotes

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Every man's actions belong to him.

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.

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

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

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

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

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

Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.

The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

Do-so is more important than say-so.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.