Action Quotes · Page 112

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

— Laozi

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

— Ted Turner

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold.

— Andy Andrews

I've done action, songs, and dance in most of my films down South.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that…

— Stuart A. Staples

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful…

— Jack Canfield

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is…

— Plato

On an analytical level, what's so special about the Asian approach to action is that there is a time signature to the…

— Gareth Evans

So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision.…

— Tony Robbins

Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our…

— Dalai Lama

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

— Harold Evans

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action…

— Costa-Gavras

The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us…

— Susan L. Taylor

When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action…

— Donald Trump

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,…

— Steven Brust

Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist…

— Rachel Martin

The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a…

— Fernando Pessoa

Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her…

— Mary C. Ames

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity…

— Thomas Merton

The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid…

— Nelson Mandela

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

— Nithya Menen

Let us live our lives as if the maxim of our actions were to become a universal law for the whole world.

— Immanuel Kant

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

— Billy Graham

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

— Shane West

We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists.

— Tony Blair

“You are one, and we are many, We are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. We are the face of justice.”

— J.B. Lion

We are prepared for any action that may be required in Gaza, Lebanon, and in additional areas.

— Yoav Gallant

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

— Peter Drucker

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

— Idries Shah

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

— David J. Schwartz

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

— C. S. Lewis

We maintain the right to defend ourselves, and we won't hesitate to take the appropriate action.

— Lloyd Austin

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

— Shane Black

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

— Charlotte Lennox

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.

— Jacques Chirac

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer