Action Quotes

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Speech is the mirror of action.

If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.

Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions dont speak. People speak, and people are loud.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.