Best 4991 quotes in «action quotes» category

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

The United States only knows one form of intervention and that is the military one. Everything depends on drawn weapons. We should, however, develop a wider scope of action. And we should learn to be patient.

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!

The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

The US military has achieved a decisive blow against al-Qaeda with its commando action against Osama Bin Laden and his killing.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his power is exercised, and in which all his attributes are reflected. God is not out of the universe any more than the universe is out of God. God is the principle, the universe is the consequence, but a necessary consequence, without which the principle would be inert, unfruitful, impossible to conceive.

The value of actions lies in their timing.

The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.

The way I think of it is that Russia is not going to change fundamentally. They may change tactics; they may look at their interests and figure out what actions they take, but they're not going to change fundamentally. And they're going to try to gauge what will the responses be to things that they do, and what will our things be. And here, they do wonder what is the level of our resolve? How far are we willing to go? And that is something that is very hard to gauge.

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

The whole endeavor becomes less about a constraint on action and rather about helping us to be more of who we would actually like to be, at our best and if we felt it were possible. Rather than positioning effort as being about "thou shalt not," it becomes all about "can do!

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the one thing I've been trying to contribute. I still write things outside of architecture - not really fiction, but not nonfiction. I like dialogue as a form, because the text is only the trace of an action. The consequential information is carried in the action you choose to put on that text.

The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

The worst thing I can do is nothing.

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.