Action Quotes

I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world.

The best ideas in the world will accomplish nothing if you leave them on paper. Talk about them. Debate, discuss, argue. Put them into action. Then you can change the world.

I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?

I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

Let your actions be ruled by your heart, not by your mind

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

The value of actions lies in their timing.

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

Build up virtue, and you master all.

Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

Donald Trump has no sympathy with underdogs. They, including the Palestinians, are just "losers." So he will bring words and action together as Netanyahu wishes.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.

[Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up!

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.

I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.

I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure picture, if I actually had to qualify it.