The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions dont speak. People speak, and people are loud.

Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Ask yourself every day: Is my love alive, true, generous, and open? How can I bring love into action?

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

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