Action Quotes

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Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet… — Unknown Author
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.… — Mortimer Adler
Passion begins with a burden and a split-second moment, when you understand something like never before. That burden is on those who know. Those who… — Wangari Maathai
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle
Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with… — Unknown Author
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. — Raymond Charles Barker
Things do not get better by being left alone. — Winston Churchill
Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action. — Peter Drucker
Speak little, do much. — Benjamin Franklin
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains… — Erich Fromm
Make history or be a part of it. — Phil Knight
Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo. — Theodore Levitt
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing. — Jules Verne
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. — Belva Ann Lockwood
It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.... — Dorothy Day
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve… — Steve Pavlina
My dad was good with actions. — William Shatner
The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and… — Fred Brooks
There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright] — Jude Law
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. — J I Packer

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