Action Quotes

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.

You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.

Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action ,you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

A fallow field is a sin.