Action Quotes
The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.
Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.
I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
God has challenged me to grow in my knowledge of Him but I have to CHOOSE whether or not to display this growth through my actions.
Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.
I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me.
I think as far as the action genre goes, I like when it has a sense of humor. I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.
For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.
It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.
Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?
The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.
When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.
A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.