Action Quotes

Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

Stillness is training for action.

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Without Visitors who are enticed to take action when presented with your offers, all you have is a hobby.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

Power should answer by action, not by speech.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.