Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
Without Visitors who are enticed to take action when presented with your offers, all you have is a hobby.
ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.
As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.
The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action.
Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.
Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.
Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.
An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.
Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.
Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
Sometimes there are people who don't know how to make action movies - and that situation isn't a good one.
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.
For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.
The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.
There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.