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Quotes About Action

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
~ John Piper
If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.
~ William Westney
I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!
~ David Raiklen
We were cowards when we sacked him.
~ John Lennon
Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!
~ Éliphas Lévi
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
~ Gaylord Nelson
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
~ Hans Jonas
For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.
~ Christmas Humphreys
Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.
~ Bruce Lee
There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
~ Bill Nye
My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
~ Aristotle
The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
~ Jeanette Winterson
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.
~ Laozi
The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Every action in Nature is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and is recorded as it is repeated.
~ Walter Russell
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
~ Camille Flammarion
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
~ Horst Kohler
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.
~ Leonid Feodorov
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
~ Aristotle