Action Quotes

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.