Action Quotes

The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.

The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it’s a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.

Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!

[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

Michelle Obama is a powerful example of someone who has learned how to align her actions with her values, manage boundaries across domains of life, and embrace change courageously.

Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that allows you to dream and to make your mind up on where you're at in the story.

... and later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.

It is easier to avoid the effects of others' negativity when we question if an action or attitude is appropriately directed at us. If it isn't, we can choose to sidestep it and let it pass.

My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

hope is not a plan of action.

I believe that if something is troubling you, simply start from where you are and take the action necessary to change it.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

In the current situation, particular attention should be given to the quality of financial and economic management. The Government and the Central Bank should have a strategic action plan

If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

All in their lifetime carve their own soul's statue.

Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Everybody, male or female, needs to possess qualities that they expect others to uphold. Being aware of yourself and your actions allows you to assess your shortcomings in an honest way.

I love action films. It's my favorite genre.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.

To the valiant actions speak alone.

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.