Action Quotes

Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.

By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Ideas without action are useless.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

We do have the nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that's an enforcement consequence, action for action, follow on. We have a plan, we will watch them, we will be vigilant.

Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.

[Donald Trump] actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that [Muamar] Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time.

Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

I like action-adventure movies.

Watch your thoughts. They turn into words, then turn into actions.

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

I always feel at home doing a little bit of action.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.