Action Quotes

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Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but… — Bernhard Langer
Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action. — Desmond Tutu
Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these… — Henri Poincare
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. — Leo Buscaglia
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action. — William James
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. — William Shakespeare
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The… — Epictetus
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words,… — Marian Wright Edelman
When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,… — Maya Angelou
My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation… — Og Mandino
The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it. — Robert Ringer
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes. — Swami Satchidananda
Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard… — John C. Maxwell
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively. — Daniel Gilbert
From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but… — David Simon
Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from… — Jean-Michel Cousteau
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who… — Maria Montessori

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