Action Quotes - Page 100

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.