Action Quotes

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.

Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.

Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.

We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.

Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Abraham: You did not come into this environment to create through action. Instead, your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought.

Hard work is not the path to Well- Being. Feeling good is the path to Well-Being. You don't create through action; you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action from you.

Action that comes from the feeling of inspiration is action that will produce good results, for you are allowing the Laws of Attraction of the Universe to carry you.

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.