Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.

Action is what makes hope a reality.

Polish your mind to reflect the shimmering beauty of your words and actions.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension...

Don’t wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you’ll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

Tom DeLay never cast a vote or took an official action that was not based on his strongly held political beliefs.

Every action of yours at the present time is bound to have a reaction, resound and reflection in the future.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

If I’m afraid to fall then how will I ever fly?

It’s, like, when you want something in life, you want it so badly that you start taking action to get it, because you want it.

If the property owner has complied no further action is taken. But if the problem hasn’t been taken care of then there will be a visit by the enforcement official and a uniformed police officer who will issue a citation and set a court date or hearing. The court, in this case Municipal Court Judge...

The rest of us need you to act, because if you don’t, you’re robbing yourself, your peers, your family, your organization, and the world of a contribution that only you can make.

I like TV ? I don’t love TV. I would rather be the action, not reporting the action.

Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose the poverty of his general ideas; he never permits the conversation to move toward philosophical principles. Men of his type so dread all deliberation that they glory in the practice of...

There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

This latest disclosure and development is very disturbing, very disgusting and we will certainly be taking appropriate action as a result of this finding.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

Probably not, but we can pretend.

Tomorrow, I need you to die.

Stand still while I yell at you.

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.

Apologies are great, but they don’t really change anything. You know what does? Action.

We put on a high-energy, action-packed show. We play pure rock ‘n’ roll. I think our music can be fun, but I think it also has the power to move people’s souls.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Favorite Quotations.I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it. It’s not over till it’s over. Imagination is everything. All life is an experiment. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.

The Palestinian Authority has to move from the talking stage to the action stage, … We will not be able to continue in this process if the Palestinian Authority does not start taking concrete actions against the terror groups.

We indicated previously that we would take any action necessary to eliminate this threat, and we are following through on that promise to our customers.

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it’s an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives…Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

The decision [to remove Arafat] that we took two days ago was not for immediate action, … We are taking into account our allies and our friends, and that’s the way we are working.

I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful.

For us to remain on the proposed schedule for this nomination, we will need your promptest action on these suggestions.

Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We must purposely strive to move ahead and achieve.

On your journey to achieve your dreams you will face challenges that will test you to the core.

Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it.

Belief in yourself comes from a positive attitude that sees life as worth living and that you have a wonderful part to play in it.

Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.

Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours…

Are people clamoring for military action at this point? Definitely not.

Men and women who had worn suits for decades traded punches powerful enough to crush elephant skulls, dodged and deflected attacks too fast for the eye to follow, and died suddenly, often before the crowd registered the killing blow.Victors and dead men were separated by a blink of the eye.

Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

if it was meant to be, it will be”, is a pacifying, yet harmful quote, that many spiritualists use to soften the blow of anger. God is not passive. He is relentless, and he will build you through fire. He will put in your heart a need for answers. The intensity of what bothers your...

He feels guilty. … He answered all our questions, and he promised us action to find out the truth. He is interested in getting the truth.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.