Action Quotes

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

Vision and priorities should precede actions. Actions should be judged through the prism of how the firm adds value and the key competencies it seeks to build.

Our hearts and souls are always the departing point for all thought, feeling and action.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.

The passions of love ignite, the emotions of love kindle, but the actions of love set the heart ablaze.

The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.

When it comes to action, I'd say Mel Gibson and Will [Smith] were great.

Say it with words. Show it with action.

Vision with action makes a powerful reality.

When you see the need, take the action.

Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness.

If Milo [Yiannopoulos] were a liberal, he could say whatever and then some, and he wouldn't be addressing Conservative Political Action Conference, he would be emceeing the Oscars.

This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

I've learned my feelings and thoughts are secondary to what needs to get done - that what matters is the next right action.

Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.

Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior law.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.