Action Quotes

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I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time… — Albert Einstein
The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one… — Archibald MacLeish
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of… — Phillips Brooks
A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes… — Bruce Jenner
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things. — Muriel Rukeyser
What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence. — Francis of Assisi
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. — Albert Bandura
When thinking won't cure fear, action will. — W. Clement Stone
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well. — Abbie Hoffman
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What… — Cesare Pavese
Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation. — Rajneesh
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need… — Rajneesh
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious;… — Rajneesh
Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character,… — Rajneesh
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have… — Rajneesh
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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