Action Quotes

Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billow...

Hope lies in action

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. ...

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive o...

Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand...

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best ...

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive re...

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find y...

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what...

The shots left a hard ringing sound within the closeness of the brick walls. Terry held the pistol a...

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no cour...

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could hav...

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought ...

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

We are what we do.

Never confuse movement with action.

Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into a pictu...

Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends ou...

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynam...

You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they o...

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of actio...

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires t...

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisd...

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we ha...

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. ...

A well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one’, must perform certain actions and instinctively shrink...

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally...

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of ...

'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins wi...

The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginni...

Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...

The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep brea...

To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blo...

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic pr...

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to re...

Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpret...

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others...

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that on...

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

It was in a swampy village on the lagoon river behind the Turner Peninsula that Pollock's first enco...

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...

We will either find a way or make one.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of m...

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may ...

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think y...

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class wit...

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and alo...

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Presen...

Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to la...

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wound...

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ...

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at onc...

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should the...

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just...Jean: A little brat who swears a lotMaes: An arrogant pipsquea...

'Tis man's to fight but Heaven's to give success.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussi...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ri...

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as poss...

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in soci...

Who is this man?''Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself D...

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in t...

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate...

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

All men of action are dreamers.

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I...

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to ...

The truth is, that in all cases a certain number at least seems to be necessary to secure the benefi...

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a singl...

I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt...

New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of high...

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our...