A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Action is the universal language of success.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Action is thought tempered by illusion.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Action is traction.”
“Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy,
We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.”
“Action is what makes hope a reality.”
“Action is what separates me from the mob, not talents.”
“Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.”
“Action is what will produce your desired results.”
“Action is where it's at, as far as making dreams come true. We ourselves are the prime channel for our creations, so if we don't act but just wait, then we are blocking the channel. If we do act then we will be supported by all that we are connected to... which is All That Is if we act with love and service as our motivation.”
“Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!””
“Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.”
“Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.”
“Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.”
Source: Immortality Inc.
“Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.”
Source: The essential writings of Jawaharlal Nehru
“Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.”
“Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.”
“Action lies in adventure.”
“Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“Action makes more fortune than caution.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Action means act now.”
“Action means carrying out your plan to fruition, moving forward with projects, meeting and exceeding expectations.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.”
“Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.”
“Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.”
“Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.”
“Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.”
“Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.”
“Action often precedes the feeling.”
Source: Top Performance
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Action or exaction? Voting, petitions, solidarity, information, human rights: all these things are gently extorted from you in the form of personal or promotional blackmail.”
Source: Cool Memories II, 1987-1990
“Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.”
“Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.”
“Action & Overthinking cannot exist together. You are either busy taking action or you are busy overthinking.”
“Action planning helps with overcoming what we feel now so we can focus on better things to come.”
Source: Take Massive Action: Toward Your Dreams
“Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.”
“Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.”
“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”
“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.”
“Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.”
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
“Action speaks with authority.”
“Action speaks with sacred authority.”
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“Action stimulates thought, just as thought stimulates action.”
“Action takes precedence over study.”
“Action that comes from the feeling of inspiration is action that will produce good results, for you are allowing the Laws of Attraction of the Universe to carry you.”
Source: The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham