Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 558
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night
Ernest Bramah
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.
When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.
Jeremy Taylor
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).
Neil Postman
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
Joe Bradley
I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.
Bridgit Mendler
I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.
Chantal Kreviazuk
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.
Dan Miller
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action
