Action Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We need an international solution to the challenge of climate change, there's no question about it. But the real key is, can you actually…

— Gina McCarthy

Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual…

— Vida Goldstein

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself,…

— Henry Watson Fowler

Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more…

— George Washington

The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as…

— David Hume

If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set…

— Barry Lopez

My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that…

— Jaime Ray Newman

“He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is…

— Lao Tzu

If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation…

— Henri Nouwen

When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate,…

— Michael Beckwith

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not…

— Marvin Olasky

There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

— Ari Fleischer

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan