Action Quotes

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A generous action is its own reward. — William Thomas Walsh
Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action. — Dorothy Morrison
There's action only if there is danger. — Howard Hawks
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional… — Timothy Leary
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities… — Albert Sorel
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action. — George Gillespie
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the… — Peter Quennell
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in… — H. P. Blavatsky
As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend… — Roger McDonald
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The… — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions leads to your results. Therefore,… — T. Harv Eker
Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction. — Richard Neustadt
All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these… — John Henry Comstock
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not… — Charles Scott Sherrington
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it… — Salomon Bochner
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. — James Shirley
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral… — Richard Furman
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal,… — H. A. L. Fisher

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