Action Quotes

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don't fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.

The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.