Action

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

- Akhenaton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. If women are given equal pay for Civil Service jobs, maybe other employers will do the same.

- Belva Lockwood Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but pervades and regulates the whole.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

- Jawaharlal Nehru Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

- George H. Allen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, As to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value And commendation to virtue.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

- Barbara Olson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action nuclear weapons.

- Barry Commoner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

- Albert Claude Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

- Andrew C. Bradley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

- James Baldwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Because, if I do not engage in action relentlessly, people would follow My path in every way.

- Bhagavad-Gita Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How could you fail to take action How could you leave him in power Could you just hope your information was wrong

- Ari Fleischer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In fact, much of the run-up in the Nikkei is because of players like Mr. Big. There's been a little buying by institutional investors in Japan, ... but most of the action has come from foreign investors.

- Richard Katz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is, as well, a consumer issue at stake here. Fans have purchased tickets for Eagles' games, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, on the assumption that they will see one of the game's most exciting receivers, so long as he is healthy enough to play. The Eagles' action denies them this opportunity.

- Ralph Nader Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You will never win if you never begin.

- Helen Rowland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was deeply disappointed, ... I know my leader was and others throughout our party are, and we'll have to wait and see when Congress returns what if any action might be taken against him.

- Harold Ford Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't think he's lost any of his zeal for Social Security reform, ... The action has sort of shifted to the Hill now and the Ways and Means Committee so we'll have to kind of see what they can come up with.

- Charlie Black Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

- Amelia Earhart Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That's why we will keep making these warnings and if necessary take further action, ... can increase interest rates and we can do it in a way that really hurts.

- Alan Bollard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

- Jack Canfield Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects but, in fact, we live in a homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men. . .

- Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

- Martin Luther King Jr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

- Jean Paul Richter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

- Douglas Jerrold Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes