Action Quotes

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action.

I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Ask yourself every day: Is my love alive, true, generous, and open? How can I bring love into action?

More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.

I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role.

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.

In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

I love fantasy. I love thrillers. I love action. I'm all over the place. As long as the story and characters are good, I'll love it.

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

I've experienced many hardships‚ but mentally‚ I've always been older‚ and that reflects in my actions‚ too.

Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.

I finished The Freebie, which was a small relationship "talky" movie, and I was like, "I just want to get out of the house! And I want there to be some action, and I want some tension in there!"

The IMPP work was already very important. The recent AOL action might reinforce public perception that a standard is needed, but I think the public already realized this.

Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.

You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.

We need to deter Putin from further actions because this is a very real threat.