Action Quotes

8300 Action quotes by 4093 unique authors

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything. — Nick Vujicic
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice… — Dean Koontz
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot… — Adolf Galland
If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again,… — Unknown Author
My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to… — Arthur F. Burns
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions. — Ludwig von Mises
Gesture is not always action. — Jay Maisel
A goal without an action plan is a daydream. — Nathaniel Branden
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow… — Maxwell Maltz
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. — James Callaghan
I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know… — Bill Hicks
It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international… — Margaret Thatcher
When you speak and represent the person of Jesus Christ in all actions of your life, people are drawn to that. You set the standard… — Kurt Warner
I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role. — Jose Canseco
The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For… — Tom Robbins
One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to… — Joe Haldeman
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a… — Nicolas Berggruen
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by… — Kenneth Burke
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations… — Alcee Hastings
Be an earth angel, and look for love behind the actions of everyone you meet today. Whenever you look for love, you will always find it. — Doreen Virtue
In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a… — Esther Hicks
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral… — Susan Jacoby
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. — Mort Sahl
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and… — Maurice Strong

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