Action Quotes

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.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

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.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

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.

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.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

I am proactive in every duty, except that which requires action.

Convert life into truth.

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.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.

Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.