action

621.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

- Learned Hand

622.

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

- Leo Braeck

623.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

- Leo Tolstoy

624.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

- Leo Tolstoy

625.

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

626.

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

627.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

628.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

- Lord Tennyson

629.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

- Louis A. Allen

630.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

- Louis D. Brandeis

631.

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

- LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

632.

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

- M. R. Vincent

633.

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

- Mahatma Gandhi

634.

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

- Malcom Mclaren

635.

The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

- Marcus Aurelius

636.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

- Mark Twain

637.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

- Martha Graham

638.

There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

639.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

- Milton, John

640.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

- Moliere