Action Quotes

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.

Temper your future actions.

I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.

When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests.

I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action.

Actually I'm a big fan of Spielberg and the way he shoots action scenes.

When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions.

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.

We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision

If there is no action, you haven't really decided.

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I would love to try action films.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

If you're doing live-action, you have to learn how to actually do whatever it is that you're doing. If you're doing voice-over, you can fake it.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

What we think about and talk about expands into action.