Top 100 Action That Quotes
#1. Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.
Vikrmn
#2. When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.
John Thune
#3. Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
Alex Tabarrok
#4. That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.
Michael Lewis
#5. I use your trust in me to compel that will to action. That's leadership.
Robert J. Crane
#6. How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
Victor Ponta
#7. This is a call to action - not an action that will make things better in six months' time or a year's time, but action that might save someone's life and someone's future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.
Patrick Stewart
#8. Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.
Nhat Hanh
#9. We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.
Lord Chesterfield
#13. I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.
Rachel Cohn
#14. bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#15. We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.
Stedman Graham
#16. It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.
Ann Landers
#17. I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them.
Columbus Short
#18. Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
Angela Y. Davis
#20. Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?
Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality.
Steve Maraboli
#22. Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#23. The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing
nothing at all.
Agatha Christie
#24. If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.
David Dastmalchian
#25. Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.
Timothy Keller
#26. What "the public," "the workforce," "the electorate," "consumers," and "the population" all have in common is that they are brought into being by institutionalized frames of action that are inherently bureaucratic, and therefore, profoundly alienating.
David Graeber
#27. We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both "what" we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences.
Judith Butler
#28. Buster admired the skill, loved any action that seemed to be purely muscle memory, disconnected from the brain, which was something he could hardly fathom. His brain always interrupted the actions of his body, interjecting questions and concerns.
Kevin Wilson
#29. 'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.
Travis Bradberry
#31. You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.
Garrett Hardin
#32. If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
James Callaghan
#33. It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's reluctance to hurt someone else is just an excuse; in fact it is lack of courage.
Ivan Klima
#34. A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle.
#35. Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
George Pierce Baker
#36. What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland
#37. Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.
Aaron Klein
#38. Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.
George Will
#39. Every action that you take - that your disorder tells you to take - is self-harming in the short and long term.
Priyavrat Thareja
#41. Hearing the Word gives birth to faith, which in turn causes action that will bring about a change and transformation of our circumstances.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. It is tha action that we're taking NOW
That will determine our FUTURE lives.
Thomas Arnalsteen
#43. We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.
Ruth Cardello
#44. He was unsure what the thing inside him was and was unprepared to commit himself to the course of action that would be required to explore the question.
David Foster Wallace
#45. It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and a SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE
Tony Dovale
#46. The power to reach our goal is always in the moment. When the moment arrives, be ready to perform the action that will help you reach your goal, and be aware when the moment is now.
Russell Eric Dobda
#47. I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.
Peace Pilgrim
#48. Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.
Max De Pree
#49. The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.
Gloria Feldt
#50. The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.
Ian Somerhalder
#51. It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.
David R. Ellis
#52. He didn't say a word or do an action that did not have a purpose
Bill Clinton
#53. It is through action that you set the wheels of life in motion to get what you want and be who you want to be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#54. I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas - not consuming those of others.
Paulo Freire
#55. Love is an action that does not depend on anyone else but the person expressing it.
Amy Bayliss
#56. What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
Michel Foucault
#57. Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.
Gautama Buddha
#58. Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
Barbara Deming
#59. It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.
John Goodlad
#60. To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation.
Auliq Ice
#61. The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up. They don't believe it is empirically true to the problems of their lives and times.
Ernest Becker
#62. When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#63. Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
Wendell Berry
#64. Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
John Piper
#65. If you want to feel proud of yourself, then do good. Take action that will make you proud ... And if you really want to feel proud, then do something to help someone else.
Oseola McCarty
#66. It seemed a fitting way to end my teaching career. I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other.
Howard Zinn
#67. Stories are my art and my solace. They could also be my weapons. Stories give more than facts. Stories touch the conscience and stimulate action. That is my motive and my goal, to put research and study and feeling into that cauldron called the novel.
Sonia Levitin
#68. It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#69. Fear and sorrow inhibit action; anger generates it. When you learn to make proper use of your anger, you can change fear and sorrow to anger, then turn anger to action. That's the body's secret of internal alchemy.
Dan Millman
#70. In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium ...
Jon Elster
#71. I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.
Christine Lagarde
#72. Or is life so filled with random action that the very notion of caution is futile?
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#73. If there is a widely shared concept of intentional action ... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.
Alfred Mele
#75. It is our action that determines the viability of our dream.
Steve Maraboli
#76. Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will
it's only action that can make a man.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#77. The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.
George Harrison
#78. Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.
Pearl Zhu
#79. It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.
Princess Diana
#80. A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.
Janet Collins
#81. Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?
Eugene J. Martin
#82. With an animated show you can make a banana purple. You can put three hats on a cowboy. That would require several days of stitching, in live-action, that you wouldn't be able to afford. I mean, you can just do tons and tons and tons.
Dan Harmon
#83. Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words
C.P. Snow
#85. Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.
Israelmore Ayivor
#86. The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell
#87. There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.
Robert McNamara
#88. Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates against minorities and one that benefits minorities.
Erwin Chemerinsky
#89. It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.
Jocelyn Murray
#90. Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind.
Christian D. Larson
#91. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
Og Mandino
#92. Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.
Brian Tracy
#93. Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.
Julian Baggini
#94. If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.
James Pearse Connelly
#95. I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
Rachel Nichols
#96. I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.
Jon Favreau
#97. To taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this "loss aversion." Research in cognitive
Jerome Groopman
#98. A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
Bill Crawford
#99. My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.
George Burns
#100. The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.
Simon McBurney
