Action Quotes
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I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
— Lois Lowry
I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
— Steve Martin
What is done hastily cannot be done prudently.
— Publilius Syrus
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You must always think big while you start small.
— John Patrick Hickey
After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic
— Winston S. Churchill
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
— J.I. Packer
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate
— Eckhart Tolle
Take too much time, and time will take you.
— Lisa Kleypas
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Francis Brown
I am so tired of begging your sorry ass, chasing your sorry ass down, tying your sorry ass up. ~ Mercy
— Lucian Bane
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
— Bess Truman
Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side.
— Marty Rubin
With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.
— David Brin
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatnessCortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
— Marty Rubin
Life is Most Important in Life is The Most important Truth in Life. Any word, thought, or action that disagrees must be a lie.
— David Wishengrad
Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.
— Barack Obama
Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.
— Meljean Brook
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
— Minor White
I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.
— Mark-Paul Gosselaar
The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.
— Earl Sweatshirt
Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.
— Brian Tracy
I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.
— Mick Ralphs
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
— Andrew Young
If she liked him so darn much, she should have done something about it. Taken some real action.
— Emily Giffin
The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.
— Edward Tufte
Everything in discernment of spirits is directed toward action: toward firmly accepting what is of God and equally firmly rejecting what is not.
— Timothy M. Gallagher
Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
— Cheryl Richardson
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
— Twyla Tharp
Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.
— Henry J. Kaiser
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
— Dorothy Richardson
There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
— Cornel West
Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.
— Shannon L. Alder
I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.
— Joel Silver
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
— Thomas Aquinas
Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end
— Pina Bausch
Respect is love in action
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.
— L. Ron Hubbard
It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
— Edward Livingston
Heaven and hell is right now ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.
— George Harrison
The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.
— Steve Maraboli
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
— Chalmers Johnson
It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.
— Frederick Lenz
To live is not breathing it is action.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.
— William Blum
It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.
— T.K. Naliaka
If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.
— Gerry Lopez
There is always a gap between intention and action..
— Paulo Coelho
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
— Gloria Steinem
Although, in my defense, a nonblinking eye rape was rarely the kind of thing you just eased into.
— K.F. Breene
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
— D.H. Lawrence
Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
— Andre Maurois
It is amazing to see all that is going on around us and it is people of action who make it all happen.
— John Patrick Hickey
Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action ...
— Cory Doctorow
It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.
— Anthony Liccione
Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.
— Orrin Woodward
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement
— Herbert Hoover
Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.
— Steve Carell
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
— Louis Pasteur
Leadership is an action, not a position.
— Donald McGannon
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
— Allen Wheelis
The ground for action is to be. Walk, sit, and eat in such a way that peace is possible in the here and the now.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Do precedes done.No precedes none. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
We never leave a man behind and as Death Adders we always take care of our own. -Reilly Campbell
— J.J. Snow
I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.
— Michael Trucco
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
— Christopher Lambert
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
— Evelyn Waugh
Faith is a three dimensional action verb".~R. Alan Woods [19998] — R. Alan Woods
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
— Alan Alda
In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.
— Emily Thorne
