Action Quotes · Page 147

Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today

— Steve Maraboli

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

— Henry David Thoreau

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

— John C. Maxwell

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

— M. Scott Peck

An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.

— Laozi

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

— Alexander Cockburn

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

— Elia Kazan

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

— Sarah Addison Allen

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions…

— Esai Morales

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a…

— Michel Patini

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may…

— George Eliot

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair…

— Bill Gates

Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is…

— George W. Bush

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her…

— Melina Marchetta

The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an…

— Seth Godin

I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean, I…

— Donnie Yen

If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions…

— Cindy Gallop

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence…

— Michael Hayden

I've had a great run and have been blessed not only with a great career, but also, thanks to all of you…

— George Perez

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful…

— Tony Robbins

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and…

— Anonymous

Being able to hear a song that is so relevant to what you are feeling makes you feel as if your not…

— Anonymous

. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large…

— Catherine L. Albanese

I'm like a geek that grew up playing with Star Wars toys and creating action sequences, essentially, with toys.

— Simon Kinberg

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I came into films when there was action. When I retired, it was romantic period.

— Rishi Kapoor

The martial arts genre a lot of times has been relegated to B-level action.

— Justin Lin

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

— John Mellencamp

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

— Tony Blair

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident

— Charles Lamb

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.'

— Joe Hyams

“We must let our every act be out of love, and for the greater good of all.”

— Bryant McGill

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

— Will Durant

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

— Francis of Assisi

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

— Sol Stein

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

— Constance Baker Motley