Best powerful & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to fear. Many will cling to seemingly powerful we're-God's-chosen-people religions, hoping that by so doing they will be saved from the wrath of a Vengeful God (not recognizing that the approaching "vengeance" will in reality be man's own actions coming back at him - and not recognizing that the Infinite Universal Power is far more than the narrow-minded gatekeeper of an exclusive Spiritual Country Club).”

“Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.”

Thinking Want Mind Eye Action Results Powerful Behavior Performers

Author:Charles Garfield

“There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.”

Littles Action Literature Powerful

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.”

Should Today Action Past Winning Easy Powerful Mistake Support Trouble Information Majority Indifference Minorities Manipulate Citizenry

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

“There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.”

People Way Needs Giving Should Ideas Government Able Action Used Powerful Clear Information Website

Author:Eli Pariser

“But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.”

Source: Outspoken essays

“O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.”

Mind Humans Action Turns Language Powerful Divine Contemplation Discourse Penetrate Admirable

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.”

Humans Action Political Powerful Roles Society Advice Ears Currents Conception Misconception Whispering Contributing Human Actions Words Of Advice

Book:A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

Source: A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

“Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.”

“It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice.The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole.The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it.And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.”

Ifs World Way Feels Wells Doe Whole Moments Facts Action Together Remember Choices Next Powerful Hero Tiny Useless Meaningless Next Time Save The World Heroines Powerlessness Cascade True Hero

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Creation is quite impressionable. Everyone leaves a trail of their actions. And everyone, however wise, however powerful, however immortal, makes mistakes. All it requires is the patience to wait for them. And you'll find no one, in all Creation, quite so patient as Death.”

Action Waiting Powerful Mistake Wise Creation Patient Making Mistakes Immortal Trails Impressionable

Book:Darksiders: The Abomination Vault

Source: Darksiders: The Abomination Vault

“Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.”

Action Powerful Attention Expression Most Powerful

Author:Ilchi Lee

“But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.”

Wells Action Values Voice Powerful Behinds Moral Opinion Judgment Creating Intellectual Conscience Concerned Difficulty Tables Noble Levers Refining Valuation

Author:Georg Brandes

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

“The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go wrong, it naturally begins to be divided against itself, and the three great wheels of its machinery exhaust their momentum, or wear each other out, in their friction against each other; while, as soon as it begins to go right, all the parts work harmoniously, and exhaust their full strength on the object of their action.”

Government Action Three Powerful Objects Weak Wheels Divided Federal Government Machinery Momentum Friction

Author:William Batchelder Greene

“I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites.”

People World Feels I Can Action Certain Powerful Position Enlightenment Aspect Sensual Appetite Very Powerful Pathways Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.”

“Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.”

Action Powerful All Things Praise Excitement Enterprise Most Powerful Commendable

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.”

Action Powerful Broken Unity Most Powerful Endeavour Discord Broken Down

Author:Sallust

“To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.”

Self Done Seems Action Prayer Powerful Healing Failing Universal Gods Will Appeals Most Powerful Living Things Self Centered Bidding Universal Love Powerful Prayer Love Never Fails

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.”

People Way Giving Action Given Social Process Simple Powerful Common Groups Share Birth Conversation Concern Significant Life Changing Social Change Initiate Process Of Change

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?”

“Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.”

Action Together Voice Powerful Exercise Training Stronger Ships Sensitive Navy Marine Our Actions Migration Habitat Mammals Synergy Together We Can

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Matter Action Powerful Bears Glory Ideals Transformed Majesty Omnipotent Powerful Thoughts

Book:Practical Vedanta Philosophy

Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy

“The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.”

Men Feelings Action Desire Powerful Influence Fame Constant Motive Dread Reproach Posthumous

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.”

Persons Self Character Feelings Action Powerful Depends Habit Discipline Judgment Aspiration Self Discipline Good Person Good Character

Book:Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

“Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.”

Needs Giving Dream Action Desire Goal Ability Powerful Focus Achieve Shapes Setting Settings Our Dreams Setting Goals

Author:Jim Rohn

“The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.”

Feels I Can Different Moments Action Political Certain Powerful Talking Groups Clever Statements Most Powerful Truthful Just Being

Author:Barack Obama

“Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.”

Action Spiritual Order Powerful Responsibility Accepting Materials Consequence Agents Accepting Responsibility

Author:Les Brown

“Take action in order to move toward your goals.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Action Moving Success Order Goal Powerful Positive Success In Life

Author:Les Brown

“Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.”

Thinking Action Earth Powerful Consistent

Author:Robert Ringer

“I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!" Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is. And then the third type is a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people.”

“Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) help the child to internalize the parent's judgment. It impresses upon the child that the parent is not only more powerful but also right. Like the Puritans, Locke (in 1690), wanted the child to adopt the parent's moral position, rather than simply bow to superior strength or social pressure.”

Children Helping Action Wanted Social Parent Powerful Moral Position Judgment Pressure Praise Shame Guilt Punishment Superiors Rebellion Bows Impress Puritan Hardened Social Pressure

Author:C. Sommerville

“It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”

“[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.”

Men Doe Two Action Law Justice Powerful Five Heard Accounts Dollars Humble Billions Corporations Assets Rulers Rule Of Law

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

“I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.”

People Action Process Results Powerful Produce Organization Engaged Mechanism Exceptional Great Organizations

Author:James C. Collins

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