Action Quotes · Page 120

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

— Thucydides

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Taking action against a show because of one individual's behavior could put hundreds of jobs in jeopardy.

— Nancy Dubuc

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

— Joseph Alsop

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

— Brian Tee

We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.

— Barack Obama

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

— Oscar Wilde

The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.

— Anonymous

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is…

— Peter Quennell

I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal…

— Alex Caceres

Issues such as child benefit, abortion, equal pay, maternity leave, Sure Start, action against sexual harassment and more found a sisterhood of…

— Rachel Reeves

“Action is a powerful thing. When you smile through your sadness, it can completely change your outlook. Try it! Smile :) Now…

— Leticia Rae

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not…

— Hugh Prather

Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your…

— Deepak Chopra

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

— Ayn Rand

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find…

— Stephanie Perkins

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from…

— Martha Beck

Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you:…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my…

— David Icke

There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…

— George R. R. Martin

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador…

— Charles Spalding

Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that…

— Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“Success becomes evident when the principles that bring about success are obeyed!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

— Anonymous

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

— Saadi

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

— Robert Breault

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

— Dale Carnegie

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

— Nandan Nilekani

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

— Anonymous

“Time is never enough, - enough is the action that you take in a given time.”

— Kangoma Kindembo

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

— George Jackson

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

— Orson Scott Card

Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

— Belva Ann Lockwood

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

— Jean de la Bruyere