Action Quotes

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.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

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

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.

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

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

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

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

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

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

I pulled out Riptide.

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

God alone can finish.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.