Action Quotes - Page 87

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

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

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.