Action Quotes

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

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.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!

Every person's every action has an effect.