Action Quotes

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

"You will accomplish a lot more with movement than you will with motivation." So MOVE. Create action. Make plans and stick to them. But above all: Cut Out The Input, And Begin The Output.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House.

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

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

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Action and adaptability create opportunity.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If anybody knows how to make action movies it's Sly.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.