Action Quotes
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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.
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.
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.
...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.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
Terrorism attacks peoples' trust in the system of their state. There is protection, but only if there is collective action and collective understanding about how to really deal with this phenomenon.
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.