Action Quotes

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Justice is the truth in action.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.