Action Quotes

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves.

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.

I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.

The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.

I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.

Hold, or cut bowstrings.

We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.

A woman's thought runs before her actions.

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

What we do with the information now is up to us, but certainly I have a lot of respect for the courage and integrity that was required for [Edard Snowden] to take that action.

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

Action often precedes the feeling.

Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

I would find it more difficult if somebody else was doing the action.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.