Action Quotes

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

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.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

I love doing action.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

Never confuse motion with action.

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

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.

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.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.