Action Quotes

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities

As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.

I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

Talk and action are two different things.

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

I never acted out with my actions to show people that I'm getting grown, you never see me with a cigarette, or see me wilding out or doing anything like that.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories

Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

Knowledge without action cost money

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities.

Do as you like--if you know what it is.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.