Action Quotes - Page 110

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.

My actions speak louder than my words.

Who can rest until the moment of action?

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star!

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

He smiled at my reaction, the stupid smile of his that was like he knew something you didn’t. And he knew something I didn’t pretty much all the time, so it was pretty much every smile on his face.

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.