Action Quotes · Page 100

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

— William Blake

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

— Mukesh Ambani

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

— Benjamin Whichcote

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

— Dan Millman

“For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.

— John C. Maxwell

You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.

— J. Michael Straczynski

So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that.…

— David Plouffe

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions…

— Baruch Spinoza

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action;…

— Anonymous

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when…

— Thucydides

“Wishes and wants do not transform a person; actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it…

— Douglas Adams

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime…

— David Frawley

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles…

— Wyatt Earp

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent…

— Arthur Helps

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Unlike other voice-over situations which are done in a recording studio, Roger Rabbit was live action and animation combined, and there was…

— Charles Fleischer

“He had dreamt about a dark-haired foreign boy. This boy held the key to the undoing of their demise. He had carried…

— Mary K. Savarese

Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might…

— Vishen Lakhiani

They don't mind getting punched in the face and, more importantly, they don't mind punching other people in the face. I'm just…

— Scott Adkins

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

— Aruna Roy

You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

— Joan Slonczewski

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

— Anonymous

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

— Nicolas Cage

If you can imagine it, you can create it. That beautiful world you dream about, needs positive action to come true.

— Leon Brown

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

— David Viscott

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

— Peter Drucker

I would love to do a period film, a sports film, or an out and out action movie.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

— Andre Maurois

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

— Suzanne Curchod

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

— Devon Sawa

We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

— Thomas Sankara

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

— Immanuel Kant

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

— Anton Chekhov