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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Action'

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When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.
Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan Athlete (1952-  )
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
Rudolf Arnheim, German Artist (1904-2007)
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash, American Businessman (1918-2001)
I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.
Shawn Ashmore, Canadian Actor (1979-  )
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
Julian Assange, Australian Activist
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
Mary Astell, English Writer (1666-1731)
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.
Colleen Atwood, American Designer
Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.
Colleen Atwood, American Designer
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden, English Poet (1907-1973)
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden, English Poet (1907-1973)
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Red Auerbach, American Coach (1917-2006)
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine, Saint (354-430)
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier (121-180)
I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet.
Sherman Austin, -
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba, Indian Leader
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