Action Quotes - Page 7

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

Action is the means through which the intangible becomes tangible.

Eleesha

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

Steven David Levine

The twins stopped and stared in surprise at the two vampires guarding a door on their right. The vampires returned their look of surprise."What are you doing here?" One of the vampires hissed."We're looking for Taco Bell." Luther said cheerfully as he and Tyrone reached behind their backs."Left or right, Tyrone?""I'll take the one on the left." Tyrone replied.

Elizabeth Kelly

It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

I rolled my eyes. To Jack I said, "Don't mind him, he's just mad no one likes him."Jonas clenched his jaw.

The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Although, in my defense, a nonblinking eye rape was rarely the kind of thing you just eased into.

The surgical resident interested in learning trauma will bypass a residency at a quiet community hospital for a residency at a fast-paced Level 1 trauma center treating a high volume of trauma patients. A Level 1 trauma center residency is far more rigorous—and not particularly glamorous—but the intensive culture of a dedicated trauma center will cultivate the decisive judgment and action required of a surgeon specializing in trauma. By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.

You will find your purpose revealed in every single action, once you realize that — you — are your purpose.

Everyday, in our quest to grab the new, the trendy, the coolest stuff, we forget to use the old and our daily lives become stuck in the vicious cycle, chasing after stuff without working the old. Today, pause, slow down, take time, revisit those lessons, materials and take the necessary baby-steps. It pays. Go, make it happen!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself.

Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and defendants and judges and juries, week after week and year after year that develops lawyers into top trial attorneys. ― Marian Deegan

Love is a lens of an observer. Love is an attitude with action.

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

Debasish Mridha

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

Debasish Mridha

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

Debasish Mridha

The size of action has no value but its aim.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.

If something needs to be done, do it. If something needs to be said, say it.

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

I had had a feeling of freedom because of the sudden change in my life. By comparison to what had come before, I felt immensely free. But then, once I became used to that freedom, even small tasks became more difficult. I placed constraints on myself, and filled the hours of the day. Or perhaps it was even more complicated than that. Sometimes I did exactly what I wanted to do all day—I lay on the sofa and read a book, or I typed up an old diary—and then the most terrifying sort of despair would descend on me: the very freedom I was enjoying seemed to say that what I did in my day was arbitrary, and that therefore my whole life and how I spent it was arbitrary.

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

Debasish Mridha

When you take an action with love, there is always happiness.

Debasish Mridha

When you take an action to improve humanity, you are happy.

Debasish Mridha

The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth.

George R.R. Martin

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.

William S Burroughs

Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.

You can have all the right reasons in the world. They don’t mean shit, my friend, if what you do causes harm.

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.

On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly coloured test cards.

A. Ashley Straker

But as Max tugged him out the door a different feeling stole over him, something strange, behind the regret, deeper than the mourning. It wasn't until much later that he was able to identify it.Excitment.

A. Ashley Straker

Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

A. Ashley Straker

Sure, scars can be painfull to look at, reminding you where you've been, but they also remind you of how far you've come.

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

Quit making believe you don’t know.You do know. Act on it.

There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference point for any action.

Thiruman Archunan

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body’s direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body’s response to thought. Indirectly, an emotion can also be a response to an actual situation or event, but it will be a response to the event seen through the filter of a mental interpretation, the future of thought, that is to say, through the mental concepts of good and bad, like and dislike, me and mine.

Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do useful things whenever it is possible or necessary to do them, we shall soon be totally departed from the human scene, and forgotten, or remembered only for having disappeared. Armenians are too vital to be permitted to throw themselves away in neutrality, comfort, well-being, satisfaction, and so on and so forth.

William Saroyan

Hope lies in action

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

Touch of Ability with Action can never be lost in the journey of life.

...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.

Happiness is the fragrance, not the fruit of an action.

Debasish Mridha

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

Debasish Mridha

Are you waiting for the approval of someone else before you make your big move? If you are, chances are they’ve already made it.

Charles F. Glassman

We kept our heads down and did our jobs. We controlled the only thing we could, which was the show. We did the thing. Because remember, the talking about the thing isn't the thing. The doing of the thing is the thing.

How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?

Todd Morr

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

Partnership means she is of equal rank to you, Raven', Obiakor continued...'Don't play games with her.

A. Ashley Straker

The attack came without warning, in the pre-dawn stillness on the day they were due to leave. A series of solid concussions shook the walls and sent Simon scrambling from his bunk. Max thrust a handgun at him, which he immediately fumbled and dropped.

A. Ashley Straker

Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven smiled pleasantly back.

A. Ashley Straker

Well, whatever happened here today...' he said, turning back to Popescu and donning his own sunglasses so he could discreetly cast his gaze over her figure,'...it was only the beginning.

A. Ashley Straker

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