Action Quotes
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William Congreve -
We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you
Mother Teresa
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I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.
Cesar Millan -
To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.
Sarah Palin -
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.
Clint Smith -
I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always... I mean, it could be because we're a funny family, but they love the humor and combining humor with space action, I mean, you know, there's a winner right there.
Rhys Darby -
I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
Elizabeth Keckley -
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.
Ansel Elgort
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All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist.
Norbert Lynton -
We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.
Marian Wright Edelman -
What holds attention determines action.
William James -
What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love–in–action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.
Andrew Harvey -
Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.
Alan Mulally -
Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt.
Katty Kay
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Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.
Satish Kumar -
The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
Richie Benaud -
Wrestling is not an action; it is a sport.
Anushka Sharma -
Without action, the world would still be an idea.
Georges Doriot -
Millions of people around the world suffer daily from the harmful health and environmental impacts caused by indoor cooking fires and inefficient cookstoves. Together with the Global Alliance on Clean Cookstoves, we are taking action to address this critical problem and to promote a cleaner, healthier environment. I am pleased to celebrate the launch of this Alliance and proud to say that agencies from across the U.S. Federal Government will continue to play an important role in this initiative.
Nancy Sutley -
There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.
Adam Nicolson
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Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
Anthony Robbins -
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
Catherine Deneuve -
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.
Anna Lappe