Action Quotes · Page 104

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

— Gloria Feldt

“I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now. Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”

— Barry Kirwan

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

— Henry Miller

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

— Frederick Lenz

Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.

— Timothy McVeigh

Sometimes life doesn't give you a second chance or another time.. you have an option NOW or NEVER!

— Anonymous

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

— Jackie Chan

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

— Martha Graham

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and…

— Benazir Bhutto

Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action…

— Dan Miller

Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence…

— Anonymous

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand…

— Thomas A. Edison

We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

— Mortimer Adler

“We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which…

— John Milton

My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a…

— Rick Santorum

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation…

— Jane Addams

I never wanted to launch legal action, but Cricket Australia simply left me no option. James Sutherland himself said that, to an…

— Mickey Arthur

The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make…

— Noam Chomsky

I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of…

— Leonard Read

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die…

— Eric Hoffer

The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code…

— Harry Browne

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I really like the 'Bourne' films but the editing style during the action scenes has been overdone.

— Gareth Evans

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

— St. Jerome

Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!

— Ted Nicholas

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

— Noam Chomsky

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

— Baruch Spinoza

“You don't need to be extraordinary to act, but you need to act to be extraordinary.”

— Amit Kalantri

[Donald Trump] needs to take action today before he becomes president so he doesn't violate the Constitution.

— Chuck Todd

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

— David Ogilvy

“There is not a better time to start being the unique contribution that you are.”

— Monika Zands

I would miss the action if I ever stepped away from wrestling.

— Gail Kim

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

— Amit Ray

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

— Patrick Lencioni

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

— Voltaire

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

“This was an urban legend that didn't make it on to Snopes.com”

— Jackie Sonnenberg