Action Quotes

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

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.

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.

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

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

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them.

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now.

I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do.

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

Today, we take to task any governmental body that doesn't protect animals, and take legal action if necessary.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

Writers are not meant for action.

The royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment.

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

I like action more than anything touchy-feely.