Action Quotes

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star!

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Practice non-action. Work without doing.

My actions speak louder than my words.

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.

In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Writers are not meant for action.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

Be an all-out, not a hold-out.