Action is the real measure of intelligence. — Napoleon Hill
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. — George Eliot
Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. — Theodore Roosevelt
Short Direct Action Quotes
Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen. — John F. Kennedy
Take action every day - some small dose at a time. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. — Bhagavad Gita
Action is the foundational key to all success. — Pablo Picasso
Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action. — Nicolas Cage
Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many. — Elizabeth May
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions. — Jordan Belfort
The secret of getting things done is to act! — Benjamin O. David
Direct Action Image Quotes
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
Direct Communication Quotes
The thing about Twitter is it goes directly to your phone like I sent you a text. It's so powerful, it's unbelievable. — Dana White
I want to be the champion of shareholders...And when I’m concerned about the direction of the business I’m not afraid to air those concerns. — Bill Ackman
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way. — Bill Ackman
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary. — Henri Bergson
To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged. — Aliza Sherman
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. — Robert Delaunay
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev
I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials. — Marc Quinn
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God. — Charles Fox Parham
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka
The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm. — Konstantin Stanislavisky
The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm. — Constantin Stanislavski
If they [the US] see Ukraine in NATO, they have to say it directly, and do it. Not words. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. — Nikola Tesla
The Union of the Russian People helped invent a new style of right-wing politics – novel not just for Russia but for most of the world – a politics in a new key oriented toward the masses, public spaces, and direct action, a fascism avant la lettre. — Stephen Kotkin
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude. — Jean-Paul Marat
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. — Tony Robbins
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things. — Arthur Scargill
The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction. — Anthony Giddens
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. — Chris Crutcher
Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.- — Gary Yourofsky
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. — Amelia Earhart
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. — Eric Hoffer
Justice too long delayed is justice denied. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness. — Robin Sharma
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. — Julian Assange
What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through. — Voltairine de Cleyre
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. — Howard Zinn
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works. — Cleve Jones
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. — Eckhart Tolle
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end. — Napoleon Hill
You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment. — Nhat Hanh
I take action in the direction of my dreams, passions, talents, and interests. I know that I have a much-needed life purpose, which I embrace without delay. I focus only on today with respect to my goals, trusting that all of my tomorrows will work out well. — Doreen Virtue
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. — David Graeber
Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals. — Denis Waitley
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man. — Emma Goldman
I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference. — Elizabeth Gaskell
When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions. — Tarthang Tulku
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. — Thomas Aquinas
I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future. — David Pocock
It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris
In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't. — Richard P. Feynman
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing. — Walter Russell
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. — Joseph Lancaster
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. — Benjamin Cardozo
In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be. — Keith O'Brien
An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which is equitable and good it is for them to direct their own movements, to seek in the their conscience reasons for their actions, and to perform them simply, without either fearing punishment or looking for reward. — Elisee Reclus
The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules. — Thomas Addison
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing. — Denny Hamlin
As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed. — Roger McDonald
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. — Wallace D. Wattles
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