Action Quotes

Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

When you start taking consistent action, you will see results.

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

The sooner you go down any path, the sooner you'll know what action to take.

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.

When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action.

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

The cornerstone of religion, a clear vision can inspire great action and firm conviction.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!

We might question God's actions, decisions, or declarations. But we can never, ever question his zany, stunning, unquenchable affection.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

I love the action stuff. Honestly, I like sci-fi and everything supernatural.

I like working on action films, and I like working on movies that are comic book based, or that have this theme, because they're things I watched or loved as a kid.

It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.