Action Quotes

Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

One action produces a reaction; that is karma.

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

You can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.

One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

T is the will that makes the action good or ill.

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

Baptism is faith in action.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

Direct threats require decisive action.

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.