Action Quotes

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

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.

Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.