You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before the head.

when we love something, emotion often drives our actions.

Emotions drive behavior. Every decision is an emotional decision at some level. Whatever your logical reasons are for taking action, you only feel compelled to act on them because of emotion. In fact, people with damage to emotional centers of the brain can list many reasons for taking action but still will not act because they do not have emotions to drive them. This is why craving comes before response. The feeling comes first, and then the behavior.

Action, you see, is the end that thought achieves. Action is its only purpose. What else is it good for? If we don't act, it's worthless.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Sheyel had always maintained that few actions are driven by reason. People act out of emotion, perception, prejudice. They will believe what they’ve always believed, filtering out all evidence to the contrary. Until they go too far and run onto the rocks of reality.

Humans are driven by emotion. Much of our so-called logic is merely the rationalization of choices that make us feel good.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

If by motivation we mean whatever it is that causes someone to follow a particular course of action, then every action is motivated — by definition. But in most human behavior the relation between motives and action is not simple; it is mediated by a whole chain of events and surrounding conditions. We observe a man scratching his arm. His motive (or goal)? To relieve an itch.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.

Truth in itself is rarely sufficient to make men act. Hence the step is always long from cognition to volition, from knowledge to ability. The most powerful springs of action in men lie in his emotions. He derives his most vigorous support, if we may use the term, from that blend of brains and temperament which we have learned to recognize in the qualities of determination, firmness, staunchness, and strength of character.

only by taking action do we learn and only by learning do we discover what we want.