Action Quotes

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!

People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.