Action Quotes

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New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. — Bill Gates
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government… — Strom Thurmond
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march... — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very… — John C. Maxwell
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his… — Murray Rothbard
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.… — Rajneesh
The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not a doing; it… — Rajneesh
A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I`m not saying stop doing, stop action; I`m not saying that. I… — Rajneesh
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response… — Rajneesh
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.' — Plutarch
One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world. — Eileen Caddy
We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start… — Melody Beattie
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents… — Mahatma Gandhi
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is awareness, watchfulness. The… — Rajneesh
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from… — Andrew Jackson
I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my… — Jackie Chan

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