Action Quotes

"Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction."

"But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me."

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."

"One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better."

"The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin."

"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."

"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

"I wanted to do something inspirational for my children."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."

"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."

"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model."

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"