Action Quotes

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.

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

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Every person's every action has an effect.

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.

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

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

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.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.

Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.

Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.

The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

Knowledge must come through action.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

Asia, in cooperation with Europe, is about to take simultaneous action towards realization of a New World Order.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Action always beats inaction.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world