Best 4991 quotes in «action quotes» category

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

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 unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

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.

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

There is always a gap between intention and action.

There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.

There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.

There is nothing that exists, that is not existing perfectly, which includes every thought we have, every word we speak, and every action we commit. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with me, with you, with them.

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.

There is only one proof of ability - action.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.