Action Quotes

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

I think I wanna do some action stuff down the road. I wanna kill some aliens. Something real fun, you know? Just a big, fun movie.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Repentance is belief in action.

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

Actions are more precious than words

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to get done.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

A man is the origin of his action.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.