Action Quotes - Page 101

The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

You'd be surprised how much you don't understand what other people see your actions as; how other people view the things you say and the things that you do. And a lot of times just clarifying what your intentions are with people makes a huge difference.

I am proactive in every duty, except that which requires action.

In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind?

Baptism is faith in action.

The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.

Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

Faction before blood.

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow.

Good managers have a bias for action.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

You can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'