The motive behind the action is more important than the action itself.
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SOTONYE ANGA You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing
SOTONYE ANGA Motive defines the value of an action.
JIM GENOVESE Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
ILYAS KASSAM Action ceases to exist without motive.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope o...
KREESHNA We need __most to understand nature.
CLINTON HILL .........DEFENDER OF THE PLANET AND A NATURE LOVER. The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.
DEYTH BANGER You are dead, you know!” he screeched delightedly, “Come on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE!
WILLIAM AXTELL Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
WILLEM DAFOE There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in actio...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. I...
W. M. L. JAY Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Behind every action is a reason; in front of every action is a consequence.
CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and ...
ROY BENNETT There is nothing more lonely than an action taken quietly on your own, and nothing more comforting t...
JOSEPH FINK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Actio...
PLUTARCH An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
BUDDHA An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
EDWARD DE BONO Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy moti...
BHAGAVAD GITA However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
OSCAR WILDE The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action
OSCAR WILDE Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Action makes more fortune than caution.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Action makes more fortune than caution
VAUVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE Action makes more fortune than caution
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Action makes more fortune than caution.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON We hope the recovery plan will be much more action-oriented than research-oriented. Research is fine...
KATHY FLETCHER Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is mor...
B.K.S. IYENGAR We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by comtemplation. The hand is mor...
JACOB BRONOWSKI I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.
SARA SHERIDAN Whatever action the Senate takes on ESA reform should reflect the national, bipartisan outcry for st...
DAVID RIDENOUR The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
BRYANT H. MCGILL Taking action is the single most important step toward success.
MUHAMMED HAIDER The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is i...
PETER F. DRUCKER The quality of life is more important than life itself
ALEXIS CARREL The quality of life is more important than life itself.
ALEXIS CARREL If at the end of that process any corrective action is needed, Max will be more than happy to take t...
BARRETT KAISER Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
CLAUDE A. HELVETIUS Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
CLAUDE A HELVETIUS We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
SAROJINI NAIDU Imagination is intelligence having fun. Action is imagination working hard. Failure is action learni...
ZENG HAN JUN No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
RICHARD HAMMOND WSF started as protest; it is now a search for alternatives. The next logical step is action - witho...
RAMESH SINGH Guidance needs to be more targeted to the specific action rather than general.
ANDREW SMITH Knowing the outcome is important because it empowers you to take action.
ZENG HAN JUN Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that acti...
MOTHER TERESA There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different...
PATTY JENKINS Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
UNKNOWN Game plan is bigger than the match plan only in that sport where a lot of money is involved.
ANUJ SOMANY They want to increase the popularity of the game by merely projecting a few players as a big celebri...
ANUJ SOMANY By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no p...
CLAUDE A. HELVETIUS By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no p...
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no ...
CLAUD-ADRIAN HELVETIUS Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
FATOS NANO Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I w...
JON MEACHAM Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to...
SHARON WEIL We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to th...
STEVE MARABOLI Why...do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o...
CALVIN COOLIDGE In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is ...
JAN DE BONT I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, th...
W. CLEMENT STONE Seek to do less and to accomplish more, to achieve more. Doing is action. Achievement is successful ...
A.J. RUSSELL Pain by itself made from words which have gone to action, by itself is unsolveable problem.
DEYTH BANGER Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the act...
WILLIAM JAMES The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
DANIEL D. PALMER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and the...
MICHAEL J. FOX Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself ...
BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL Every spiritual action manifests itself in the physical world by bringing concrete changes
SUNDAY ADELAJA Don’t focus on the action, focus on the mentality behind the action. Analyzing the mentality will ...
IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexua...
JOAN DIDION Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without ...
JOHN DEWEY Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effecti...
JAMES LEVIN Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effecti...
PETER F. DRUCKER Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effecti...
PETER DRUCKER Don’t just jump into action just because people are taking action. Know and understand the next re...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr...
JOSEPH CONRAD The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
THE DOORS Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more comp...
ZOLTAN KODALY The ego was nothing more than just a thought till you turn it into an action...
PHILIP T. M. The ego was nothing more than just a thought till you turned it into an action...
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