logo

Quotes About Action

Unless the belief changes, the behavior will not change.
~ Hyrum W. Smith
People should help each other just like the ocean and earth help each other through the water wave which is an give and take action.
~ Unknown
The greatest threat to climate change is humanity' Iain Cameron Williams, 2019
~ Unknown
A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.
~ Unknown
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
~ Iain M. Banks
People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.
~ Iain M. Banks
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.
~ Iain Pears
The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
~ Iain Pears
Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.
~ Unknown
Believing is not thinking something is true, Shireen. It is acting for the truth.
~ Unknown
There will be no politics, no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.
~ Ian Botham
We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether is happens to be judged good or evil is a matter for others to decide.
~ Unknown
By contrast, if they are engaging with your emails and acting on them, then when you ask them to take a bigger action they're much more ready to take that step because they've already taken smaller steps and they've had good results from taking those smaller steps.
~ Unknown
Bond. James Bond.
~ Ian Fleming
I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
~ Ian Fleming
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action
~ Ian Fleming
Relatives and patients also want something to be done, rather than 'nothing' (which is how they perceive non-operative treatment).
~ Unknown
Great men are not made by propaganda, but grow out of their actions
~ Ian Kershaw
She left the pneumatique at the next stop and went to see what she had done to the world.
~ Unknown
If she had had a new famulus, or even this poor old smashed famulus, or any famulus at all, she might have never done what she had just done. She could not decide whether that was a good or bad thing.
~ Unknown
Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.
~ Unknown
Soms is een gedachte dichter bij de waarheid, bij de werkelijkheid, dan een handeling. Je kunt alles zeggen, je kunt alles doen, maar een gedachte kun je niet veinzen.
~ Unknown
You only regret the things you haven`t done !
~ Ian Simpson
I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
~ Ian Somerhalder