Action Quotes

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

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

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

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

Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.

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

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.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

A man is the origin of his action.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention.