Action Quotes

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

The idea of, 'The journey is the destination' is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a 'More Like This' link on the internet.

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Leadership is action, not position

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

I don't act; I react.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.

Character is revealed through action.

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

No research without action, no action without research.

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

I'm a fan of action movies.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.

God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.