logo

Quotes About Action

Because verbs have the power to dictate how a sentence conveys who did what to whom, one cannot sort out the roles in a sentence without looking up the verb. That is why your grammar teacher got it wrong when she told you that the subject of the sentence is the "doer of the action." The subject of the sentence is often the doer, but only when the verb says so;
~ Steven Pinker
If the system is wired so that it triggers actions that typically reduce the difference between the current state and the goal state, it can be said to pursue goals (and when the world is sufficiently predictable, it will attain them).
~ Steven Pinker
Active, shmactive!
~ Steven Pinker
The mind cannot be a blank slate, because blank slates don't do anything.
~ Steven Pinker
It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action.
~ Shoghi Effendi
Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.
~ Dale Evans
Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.
~ Deepak Chopra
Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.
~ Ramón Llull
Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
~ Saint Augustine
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
~ Stephen Covey
What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.
~ Tim DeChristopher
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
~ Voltaire
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.
~ Heidi Baker
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism
~ Khaled Hosseini
To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
~ Scilla Elworthy
A guy can tell a girl he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to a woman when her head's full of doubt. You have to show her.
~ Colleen Hoover
Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
~ Rajneesh
I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.
~ Jason Statham
Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.
~ Guy Finley
Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.
~ Mel White
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
~ Fred Rogers
Whenever you're in doubt about any action, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? You can also ask, what would love do now?
~ Harold Klemp