Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 161
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
Teresa of Avila
We must not stint
Our necessary actions in the fear
To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing.
It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma Thompson
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
Igor Stravinsky
Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.
Little minds think and talk about people.
Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
Great minds think and talk about ideas.
Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.
Norman Mailer
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
Lorraine Hansberry
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.
Shirin Ebadi
The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.
In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
Jeremy Renner
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin
