Action Quotes - page 7

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. View quote
Bradley Whitford
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. View quote
Gary North
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. View quote
Jack Canfield
The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. View quote
Elihu Root
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed. View quote
Lee Strobel
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. (Dale Evans)
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. View quote
Billie Jean King
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. View quote
Bill Shuster
I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now. View quote
Christina Milian
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action. View quote
Damon Hill
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. View quote
Douglas Horton
I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action. View quote
Morris Chestnut
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. View quote
Zoltan Kodaly
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. (Buckminster Fuller)
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. View quote
José Martí
The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances. View quote
Halle Berry
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru