Top 100 Quotes About In Action: Famous Quotes & Sayings About In Action

#1. Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

#2. The dreamer is a madman quiescent,
the madman is a dreamer in action.

#3. Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.

Anais Nin

#4. Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

W.B.Yeats

#5. The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.

Nigel Mansell

#6. The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action ... If we pray the work ... if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus ... that's what makes us content.

Mother Teresa

#7. Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

Jamais Cascio

#8. I am love and light in action.

Jodi Livon

#9. Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

Travis Bradberry

#10. We will mulitply the gospel only when we allow others to get close enough to us to see the life of Christ in action.

David Platt

#11. There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

Brian Tracy

#12. It's wise to learn how to cook,' Kessligh fumed, 'but a meal prepared over three weeks is inedible! There is wisdom in action! So stop talking, and act!

Joel Shepherd

#13. My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#14. My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

Sunny Deol

#15. I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.

Terry Crews

#16. In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle.

#17. That's disappointing," Nick said. "I was hoping to see you in action again. It's kind of sexy in a violent, perverted sort of way."
"Gosh, knowing that makes my day complete."
"I thought you'd want me to be open about my feelings now that we're married.

Janet Evanovich

#18. Westboro Baptist Church: STOP. Stop protesting the funerals of our soldiers who died in action because you are anti-gay. When one of you dies, I'm going to show up with a couple of gay veterans and we're going to do a musical at your funeral.

Billy Crystal

#19. In attitude, faith is "restful", but in action, it is "powerful". Praying in tongues has both a restful and powerful effect upon our lives because it is an active expression of our faith.

Robert C. Frost

#20. During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Melissa Bean

#21. Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

Charles Evans Hughes

#22. Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

Byron Katie

#23. We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Sarojini Naidu

#24. To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#25. Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

Henry Chester

#26. About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": "What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.

Belinda Jack

#27. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Georges Clemenceau

#28. In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Ed Koch

#29. We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

Jerry Bridges

#30. Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

Baba Hari Dass

#31. But in action, one defies one's character.

Daniel Bell

#32. The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA, "enemy killed in action," even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless

Jeremy Scahill

#33. Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

Josh Hartnett

#34. Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

James F. Amos

#35. People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

Salva Kiir Mayardit

#36. I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

Margaret Heffernan

#37. Love is faith in action."

~R. Alan Woods [2006]

R. Alan Woods

#38. The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.

Ernest Hello

#39. The act of kindness is love in action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

Samuel Fuller

#41. 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

#42. Listening is love in action.

Leo Buscaglia

#43. One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.

Eboo Patel

#44. The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar

#45. The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.

John Desmond Bernal

#46. In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

George Pierce Baker

#47. The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

Jim Webb

#48. For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

William Butler Yeats

#49. The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man's consciousness in action - the dance presents a stylized version of man's body in action.

Ayn Rand

#50. There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#51. Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Charles Lindbergh

#52. I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

Anne Rice

#53. Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

George Gillespie

#54. Justice is the truth in action.

Joseph Joubert

#55. What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

#56. Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

Kate Morton

#57. Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Donald Miller

#58. The proof that one truly believes is in action.

Bayard Rustin

#59. I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn't mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

Dalai Lama XIV

#60. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Pope Benedict XVI

#61. Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.

Bill Jay

#62. Leadership is Idealism in Action.

Sathya Sai Baba

#63. The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

Price Pritchett

#64. When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

Bell Hooks

#65. Inspiration gives you energy, courage puts you in action.

Amit Kalantri

#66. The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing that doesn't suit a novelist in action, when he's in the course of writing his novel.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#67. Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Bertrand Russell

#68. A major consequence of being psychologically asleep is the psychological and spiritual blindness which results from it. This results in action not from conscious awareness and true intelligence but from self-righteousness, which leads individuals and society as a whole into an abysmal pit.

Belsebuub

#69. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

Mother Teresa

#70. True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work

David O. McKay

#71. I will remain on Spartacus's side, never with the Caesars, and even against science I am going to maintain my trust in the ability of the working masses to free themselves from the yoke of capitalism, since whoever has seen the masses in action knows that it is possible.

Leonardo Padura

#72. For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

Edgar Guest

#73. It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.

Matthew Stover

#74. While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

Earl Blumenauer

#75. The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Thomas Carlyle

#76. Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

Frances Moore Lappe

#77. Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!

Nellie L. McClung

#78. Remember, your highest goal is learning, and only in action does true, experiential learning occur. This is what you climb for.

Arno Ilgner

#79. Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

Dallas Roberts

#80. Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#81. Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.

Marshall Vian Summers

#82. The greatest conduct is love in action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. Tact is good taste in action.

Diane De Poitiers

#84. Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.

Ronald Steel

#85. I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

Ben Shahn

#86. She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

Michael Dorris

#87. Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

Esther Hicks

#88. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

Joseph Addison

#89. Then there was Micah Jenkins, the Captain of Troop K, a gentle and courteous South Carolinian, on whom danger acted like wine. In action he was a perfect gamecock.

Theodore Roosevelt

#90. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

Mother Teresa

#91. The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Vince Lombardi

#92. Confidence is preparation in action.

Ron Howard

#93. Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passionate love," was formed of "heart," "to tell," and "a long thread.

Joy Kogawa

#94. In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has been a constant and steady decline of man in art, in thought, in action. The world is pooped out: there isn't a dry fart left.

Henry Miller

#95. While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.

Scott Weiss