Action Quotes - page 3

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. (James Hutton)
You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done. View quote
John le Carré
Never confuse movement with action. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. View quote
Sarojini Naidu
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. View quote
Hans Blix
Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job. View quote
Oswald Mosley
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. View quote
Kenneth Clark
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer - at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. View quote
John Steinbeck
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. (Henri Bergson)
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. View quote
Helen Rowland
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. View quote
Denis Diderot
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. View quote
Learned Hand
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Action is the foundational key to all success. View quote
Pablo Picasso
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test, which is not fanciful save by trial. View quote
Sophocles
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas-in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. (Jürgen Habermas)
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. View quote
Ian Fleming
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Action is character. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald