Action Quotes - Page 92

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

Any action is better than no action at all.

Expect the best and get it.

To initiate (user) action, doing must be easier than thinking.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

Create each day anew.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

You can't judge the many by the actions of the few.

This is the great Secret of life.

The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.