Action Quotes

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Justice is truth in action.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Action is character.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Never confuse motion with action.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Action expresses priorities.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Never confuse movement with action.

Never mistake motion for action.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.