Action Quotes

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Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of… — Walter Russell
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from… — R. D. Laing
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world — Ruth Messinger
Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927,… — Bernard Baruch
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from… — Lenny Bruce
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity… — Dave Freudenthal
Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of… — Swami Vivekananda
We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas. — Paul Tournier
If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words… — Nhat Hanh
Big words seldom accompany good deeds. — Charlotte Whitton
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. — Charles de Gaulle
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do-so is more important than say-so. — Pete Seeger
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. — Antonio Porchia
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. — Danilo Dolci
So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing… — Joel Spolsky
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled… — Ernest Newman
Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought,… — Marianne Williamson
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and… — Charles Baudelaire

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