Action Quotes

Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.

Never confuse movement with action.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

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.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.