Action Quotes · Page 88

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

— Robert South

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

— Frank Herbert

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

— Thomas Carlyle

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

— Zig Ziglar

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

— Sophocles

Renouncing action does not mean defeat. It is a sign of great wisdom.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

— Jack Welch

The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions…

— Thomas Troward

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality,…

— Flannery O'Connor

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is…

— Martha Graham

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in…

— Richard Steele

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

— Jean Hugard

Through the years, I've developed a style or a language that I like, even when it applies to action. All my action…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own…

— Gloria Steinem

The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed…

— Anonymous

To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and…

— John Locke

The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has…

— John Galt

Dealing with our negative emotions is a crucial preparatory step to taking effective action. You have to grapple with the hard stuff,…

— Tim DeChristopher

I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming…

— Ronald Reagan

A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically…

— David Petersen

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They…

— Anonymous

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

— Devon Sawa

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

— Marshawn Lynch

Sometimes it doesn't matter how right you are... sometimes just shutting up is the best course of action.

— Nishan Panwar

“Truth can only be found in a person's record of actions, not their list of intentions.”

— Suzy Kassem

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

— Samuel Richardson

I always believe that expressing grief on social media isn't enough, it is very important to take some action.

— Sonu Sood

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

— Harold Washington

Usually I have to leave parties early - just when the action is beginning.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

— Joseph Jacobs

Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.

— Andy Dunn

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.

— Howard W. Hunter

Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives.

— Thomas S. Monson

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

— Ho Chi Minh

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

— Al Sharpton

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

— Thomas Hobbes