Action
The time for talk is over; now is the time for action.
Author: Donald RumsfeldTopics: Action, Famous
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Author: B. C. ForbesTopics: Action, Famous, Life
The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
Author: B. C. ForbesTopics: Accomplished, Action, Famous
The greatest expression of love is not in words, but in actions.
Author: Yash ChopraTopics: Action, Expression, Famous
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions.
Author: Don HenleyTopics: Action, Behavior, Famous
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Author: Johannes KeplerTopics: Action, Famous, Positive
Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.
Author: Jane GoodallTopics: Action, Choices, Decision, Famous
Actions speak louder than words, and it’s no more true than with your kids.
Author: Brad PittTopics: Action, Famous
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
Author: Akshay KumarTopics: Action, Actors, Famous
I’m an athletic actor. I’m known for my action; I’m a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
Author: Akshay KumarTopics: Action, Actors, Famous
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it’s the opposite. I get paid to do action.
Author: Akshay KumarTopics: Action, Famous, Money
I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.
Author: Mukesh AmbaniTopics: Ability, Action, Famous
The spirit of unity and harmony will guide our policies and actions.
Author: Yogi AdityanathTopics: Achievement, Action, Famous
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Author: Alexander Graham BellTopics: Achievement, Action, Famous
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it character in action
Author: Vince LombardiTopics: Action, Character, Mind, mind of state, Mind-Blowing
When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God – and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now
Author: Vince LombardiTopics: Action, God, God willing
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all
Author: Thomas FullerTopics: Action, Fame, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Related, Resounding, World
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer ‘Action!
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful
A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Glorious, God, Life
A man full of hope will be full of action
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Hope, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive
Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Reason, Views
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nature, Original
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Action, Famous, Greatest, Heaven, Meaningful, Pleasure, Power
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
Author: A. E. HotchnerTopics: Action, Challenge, Challenges, Enjoyment, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Personal Enjoyment, Plan, Plane flying
There is no such thing as hell, of course, but if there was, then the sound track to the screaming, the pitchfork action and the infernal wailing of damned souls would be a looped medley of “show tunes” drawn from the annals of musical theater.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Action, Famous, Musical, Screaming, Souls, Sound
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Action, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, References
I think it’s really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I’m just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Action, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Job, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Present, Really
Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Action, Famous, Reason, Right, Success, Unreasonable
Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Action, Impulse, Wild
Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Words
Man sees your actions, but God your motives
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motives
When you’re a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, “Okay, I’m basically out of action now for three months
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Action, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Parents
Don’t let your circumstances define you; let your actions define you
Author: I.King jordanTopics: Action, Circumstances, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive
Words mean nothing without action.
Author: Travis ScottTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Words
Football has a thing: You have to decide on an action in a moment, and your head has to be fresh for taking that decision in the moment
Author: Thiago AlcantaraTopics: Action, Decide, Decision, Famous, Feelings, Football, Meaningful, Moment
Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Action, Famous, Greatness, Jesus, Life, Look, Love, Meaningful, Positive
Love needs to be proved by action.
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Action, Experiences, Famous, Life, Love, Meaningful, Needs, Proved
Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophages and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Action, Crimes, Famous, Meaningful, Technology, World
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood – and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Ability, Action, Creature, Famous, Grant, Liberal, Meaningful, Results, Voluntarily
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Action, Care, Famous, Frame, Guilt, Life, Meaningful, Poison, Quick, Strongest
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Action, Famous, Fraud, Life, Meaningful, Necessity
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Action, Condition, Descend, Excites, Exist, Famous, Lying, Sense, State, Unless
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Act, Action, Doors, Famous, Feelings, Knowing, Life, Unless
It is in Europe that we are born and bred to a single role. America is populated by second acts, encores and revivals.
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Act, Action, Europe, Lesson, Letters, Population, Single, Single Idea
Each is responsible for his own actions.
Author: H. L. HuntTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility
It’s mainly been the case where I do very few live action roles – not out of choice but more out of not getting asked.
Author: H. Jon BenjaminTopics: Action, Choice, Famous
Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Action, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Spring, Stream
We’re in Sarah Palin’s ‘targeted’ list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we’re in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they’ve got to realize that there are consequences to that action.
Author: Gabrielle GiffordsTopics: Action, Consequences, Famous, Gun, People, Sight
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Action, Collaboration, Famous, Fire, Fired up, House, Inquiring, Meaningful, Must, Response, Safety, Solution, Teamwork, Try, Unity, Urgency, Without
Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Achievement, Action, Discretion, Famous, Feelings, Focus, Forward progress, Intention, Life, Meaningful, Privacy, Results, Reveals, Secrets, Silence, Talking
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Action, Efficiency, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivation, Now, Prioritizing, Procrastinating, Productivity, Responsibility, Time, Today, Tomorrow
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Action, Equal, Equality, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Individual, Justice, Law, Liberty, Limitation, Limits, Meaningful, Often, Right of others, Rightful, Rights, Unobstructed, Violates
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Action, Ambition, Complain, Doing, Done, Effectiveness, Effort, Famous, Feelings, Idle, Loses, Meaningful, Never, Occasion, Person, Positive, Proactivity, Task, Time, Want, Wonderful
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Action, Character, Famous, Feelings, Identity, Intention, Meaningful, Positive, Purpose, Self-Definition, Self-Discovery
Great ideas originate in the muscles
Author: Taylor SwiftTopics: Action, Creativity, Experiences, Expression, Famous, Feelings, Great, Idea, Implementation, Innovation, Inspirational, Meaningful, Muscle, Originate, Phisicality, Positive
valThe value of an idea lies in the using of it
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Action, Advantages, Effective, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Idea, Innovation, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Practical, Results, Using, Utilization, Value, Worth
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Action, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hustle, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Patience, Positive, Proactive, Success, Wait
What you are will show in what you do.
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Action, Character, Expression, Famous, Feelings, Identity, Impact, Life, Meaningful, Reflection, Show
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Action, Dressed, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Like, Looks, Meaningful, Missed, Most, Opportunity, Overall, People, Perception, Work
You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Child, Compassion, Famous, Feelings, Harmony, Healing, Help, Inspirational, Learn, Life, Lost, Meaningful, Meditation, Mindful, Practicing, Same Time
Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Experiences, Expression, Famous, Feelings, Identity, Impact, Influence, Life, Meaningful, Produce, Reflaction, Say, Signature, Thoughts
We will not just say, “I love him very much,” but instead, “I will do something so that he will suffer less.” The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person’s suffering.
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Care, Compassion, Effective, Effectiveness, Empathy, Famous, Feelings, Instead, Life, Love, Meaningful, Relief, Suffer, Suffering, Truly
Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Close, Compassion, Empathy, Engagement, Existence, Eyes, Famous, Feelings, Find, Help, Humanity, Image, Including, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Moved, People, Personal contact, Positive, Reality, Sounds, Suffering, Touch, Visits, World
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Consequences, Escapes, Famous, Feelings, Impact, Life, Meaningful, Ownership, Responsibility, Stand
Compassion is a verb
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Compassion, Empathy, Famous, Feelings, Humanity, Kindness, Meaningful, Verb
My actions are my only true belongings
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Influence, Integrity, Life, Meaningful, Ownership, Responsibility, True
There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child is in action and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Act, Action, Child, Childhood, Daily, Everyone, Everything, Home, Home life, Right, Right decisions, Right lines, United, United States
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Act, Action, Plan, Planet, Proper, Properly, Regarded, Residents, Source, Source of inspiration
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Act, Action, Lesson, Letting, Normal, Normal Life, Suggestion, Suicide, Suitable, Truly, Trust
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone ‘happy’, no greater flattery than to grant him a ‘vein of melancholy’… This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.
Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Act, Action, Deeply, Entertainment business, Greater, Laugh, Laughing, Lose, losers, Losing, Simplicity, Simply
Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Action, Famous, Hurt, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Safeguard
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Action, Famous, Military, Positive
You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.
Topics: Act, Action, Imposed, Impossible, Someone, Something for nothing, Will, Will power, Willingness
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Act, Action, Danger, Dangerous, Indifferent, Remember
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Readiness, Responsibility, Thoughts
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Author: Stephen HawkingTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Action, Determine, Determined, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Massive, Meaningful, New Paths, Own path, Path, People, Positive, Secret of success, Success
Your true values are expressed in your actions, not your words.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Action, Express, Expressed, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Value, values
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Action, Critical thinking, Experiences, Famous, Fear, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Overcome, People, Positive, Thinking
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Action, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Intelligence, Life, Meaningful, People
Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
Author: Corrie Ten BoomTopics: Act, Action, Emotion, Emotional comfort, Forever, Forgive, React, Will, Will power
The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Action, Dangerous, Famous, Life, Man
I don’t believe in luck, I believe in work.
Author: G-EazyTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Positive, Work
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one’s entire life, perhaps it would be ‘thoughtfulness.
Author: Confucius
Topics: Act, Action, Thinking, Thoughtful, Thoughtful manner
You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
Author: Gordon B. HinckleyTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Responsibilities, Self-Acceptance
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Action, Famous, Goal, Lesson, Letting, Life, Meaningful, Step by step, Step forward
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Act, Action, Enforcement, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Power, Power of nature, Purpose, Purposeful Living, Regarded, Regime, Resolution, Resourceful
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Act, Action, Develop, Energy, Famous, Feelings, Heal, Health, Increases, Life, Meaningful, Source of energy
Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Action, Famous, Knowledge, Obstacles
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Action, Desire, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mind, Peace
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Act, Action, Famous, Feelings, Lesson, Letting, Life, Meaningful, Wanted
Your actions must be just or full of pure intentions to provide His sacred service.
Author: Christopher Columbus
Topics: Act, Action, Famous, Fulfilling, Fulfillment, Intention, Meaningful, Sacred, Sacredness, Service
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
Author: PrinceTopics: Action, Compassion, Famous, Meaningful
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ‘Action, Action, Action.’
Author: PlutarchTopics: Action, Famous, Important, Meaningful
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.
Author: Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful
The action plan is a statement of intentions rather than a commitment. It must not become a straitjacket. It should be revised often, because every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Action, Commitment, Famous, Meaningful, Opportunities, Statement, Success
The time for words has now moved to the time for action.
Author: Queen Elizabeth IITopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, Time
There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Action, Famous, Idiots, Meaningful, Received, Threat
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Act, Action, Desire, Famous, Inspirational, Limitations, Self-limitation, Self-Sacrifice
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Action, Famous, Hang, Meaningful, Miracles, Unpredictable
Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, Meaningless, Wisdom
There is always a gap between intention and action.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Action, Famous, Intention
The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Action, Famous, Information, Knowledge, Meaningful, Purpose
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Action, Effective, Famous, Follow, Meaningful, Quiet
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.”
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Act, Action, Die, Famous, Life, Meaningful, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions
I love doing the action stuff. It’s soooo much fun!
Author: Paul Walker
Topics: Action, Famous, Fun, Love, Meaningful
Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you’re acting.
Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Act, Action, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Forget, Human, Human activities, Life, Meaningful, Untapped, Until
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Author: Pablo PicassoTopics: Action, Famous, Foundational, Success
Action is more important than meditation.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, Meditation
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Action, Famous, Harms, Hate, Meaningful, Suffer
In order to carry out a positive action we must develop a positive vision.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, Positive, Visions
Someone else’s action should not determine your response.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, Response
Someone else’s action should not determine your response.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Action, Determine, Famous, Meaningful, Response
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Act, Action, Change, Past, Past experiences, Play, Playful Attitude, Things, Thinking mind
[Albert Einstein] is not challenging the fact of science; he is challenging the action of science. Not only is he challenging the action of science, but the action of science has surrendered to his challenge.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: Action, Challenge, Fact, Famous, Inspirational, Science, Surrender
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go.
Author: Napoleon BonaparteTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, Stop, Thinking, Time
The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Action, Compassion, Famous, Love, Service
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Act, Action, Kind, Kindness, Large, Larger, Lesson, Letting go, Mood, Moonlight, Moral character, Place, Realization, Really, Speak, Speaking
War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Action, Force, Hand, Limitation, Limited, Theory
Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Action, Famous, Love, Meaningful, Service
Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Action, Famous, Love, Prayer, Service
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Action, Famous, Home, Love, Meaningful
Action has a multitude of consequences. Thus the will has the right to repudiate the imputation of all consequences except the first, since it alone was purposed.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Action, Consequences, Multitude, Right, Will
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Author: Carl JungTopics: Action, Creations, Inner Freedom, Inner Growth, Inner Struggles, Innocence, Love, Loveable, Lovemaking, Nearly, Necessarily, Platform, Play, Pleasantly
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Action, Duty, Importance, Lesson, Lifelong Learning, Rule, Someone
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Action, Famous, Freedom, Freedom of expression, Importance, Inspirational, Safeguarding, Speech
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Author: BuddhaTopics: Act, Action, Read, Reading, Speaking, Uplifting power, Will power, Words
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Author: BuddhaTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Idea, Idealist, Life, Meaningful
Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
Author: George EliotTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Skill, Violins
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Author: George EliotTopics: Action, Famous, Human Being
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book.
Author: Martin LutherTopics: Action, Famous, Great, Meaningful
The two primary moral questions. There are two sorts of problems concerning moral issues: where does good or bad action derive from? What makes an action bad or good
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Action, Derive, Goodness, Issues, Primary object, Problem
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Action, Greatness, Physical Life, Proper, Self, Self Belief
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Action, Discovered, Famous, Human, Meaningful
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTopics: Action, Engages, Famous, Gentle, Inspirational, Kind, Person
The heroic action of American law enforcement is the only force standing between us and total anarchy.
Author: Marjorie Taylor GreeneTopics: Action, Enforcement, Famous, Heroic, Law, Meaningful
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person.
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Act, Action, Knowledge, Relationship, Self, Self Belief, Self-Worth, Study
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Act, Action, Person, Study, Teach
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Action, Control, Famous, Human Nature, Inspirational, Strongest efforts
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Action, Experience, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Observation, Words
Take action and believe in yourself. Dreams do come true.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Action, Dreams, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, True
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
Author: Ayn RandTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Honest, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Self-Confidence
When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Action, Famous, War
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head
Author: Arthur SchopenhauerTopics: Action, Great, Heart, Work
I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Author: Mae WestTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, Words
Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action.
Author: Mae WestTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, Words
Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Action, Famous, Life, Meaningful
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Action, Famous, Important, Inspirational, Meaningful
Any action is better than no action at all.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Action, Famous, Leads, Lesson, Level, Life, Meaningful
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Action, Famous, Habit, Life
Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world.
Author: Nelson MandelaTopics: Action, Change, Famous, Meaningful, Time, Visions, World
You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.
Author: Nelson MandelaTopics: Action, Famous, Meaningful, World
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Action, Famous, Great, Life, Meaningful, Self-Confidence
Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Ability, Action, Famous, Responsibility
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.
Author: Isaac NewtonTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Opposite, Reaction
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Author: Isaac NewtonTopics: Action, Equal, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Opposite, Reaction
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
Author: Bette DavisTopics: Action, Die, Heels
I’m grabbing the clip and my n*gg*s screaming action. Screaming action, n*gg* we screaming action.
Author: Lil DurkTopics: Action, Famous, Screaming
There is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action.
Author: Anton ChekhovTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Life, Nothing, Terrible
Goals help you channel your energy into action.
Author: Les BrownTopics: Action, Energy, Famous, Goals, Help, Motivates, Motivational, Stay focused
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Author: Les BrownTopics: Action, Develop, Famous, Goal, Inspirational, Sense of urgency
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Author: Napoleon HillTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Intelligence, Life, Meaningful
I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I’d never really been able to combine them
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Action, Drama, Famous, Feelings, Life, Love, Really
Justice is truth in action.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliTopics: Action, Famous, Justice, Meaningful, Truth
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliTopics: Action, Child, Experience, Famous, Meaningful
In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Action, Famous, Fortune, Guidance, Life, Meaningful, Reason
Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body’s power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind’s power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind’s power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body’s power of action.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Action, Famous, Increases, Meaningful
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Ridicule
Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Action, Determine, Determined, Experiences, Famous, Life, Meaningful
The act of repeating erroneously the words of another
Author: Ambrose BierceTopics: Act, Action, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful