Action Quotes

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.

Good work instead of long prayers.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

Count the deed, not the thought.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

Influence is the ability to move a person to a desired action.

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

Action and adaptability create opportunity.

It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something!

I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.