Action Quotes
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Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
William Gilmore Simms
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Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church; they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.
Francis Chan
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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
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere
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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
Whoopi Goldberg
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I love that they do that. I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.
Serinda Swan
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
John Ruskin
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I watch a lot of television and I watch a lot of film and I hate when you watch the action sequences - and I always tell when they use a stunt man - and then they put the actor in and you can tell these actors haven't done anything.
Raymond Cruz
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In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.
Alexandre Kojeve
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For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.
Cesare Beccaria
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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Nic Pizzolatto
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We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak of the morals of an atom, or of the way in which a molecule conducts itself. But in the last analysis, science can draw no fundamental distinction between the conduct of an animal, a bullet, or a freshman, although there may be more unknown factors involved in one case than in the other.
William Patten
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Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.
Francis Chan
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Action will lead you forward to the success you desire.
George S. Clason
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Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.
Jet Li
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Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.
Geoff Thompson
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
Isabel Paterson
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Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.
Francis Chan
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To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
Scilla Elworthy
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The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.
Ernest Hello
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Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.
Cecil Frances Alexander