Action Quotes

Infuse your life with action.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

I say that justice is truth in action.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Happiness is a sort of action.

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

A man is the origin of his action.

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

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

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.

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

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.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.