Action Quotes · Page 145

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

— Richard L. Evans

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

— Albert Einstein

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

— Henry David Thoreau

“That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Children should speak out and take action to support each other to end bullying.

— Choi Si-won

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037.

— Joe Heck

Love is an action verb, and romance is the result of those actions.

— Chris Sullivan

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

— Richard Bach

Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers'…

— Jeffrey Bell

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into…

— John Webster

List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at…

— Brian Tracy

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see…

— Jeff Cooper

Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to…

— Jim Rohn

In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot…

— Edgar Wright

Success in life is determined greatly by the amount of value we are willing to place in our own thoughts, and our…

— Anonymous

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever…

— Hermann Hesse

For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and…

— Ralph Ellison

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must…

— Cesare Beccaria

“America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should…

— Ian Frazier

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual…

— Karen Traviss

Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the…

— Joanna Macy

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the…

— Benjamin Franklin

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at…

— Lee Strobel

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

— Naga Chaitanya

You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.

— Christopher Priest

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

— Paul Kantner

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

— Noam Chomsky

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

— William Gilmore Simms

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.

— Zoroaster

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

— Meister Eckhart

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

— Jude Law

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

— Peter Lynch

I have to stay relevant, be able to find a way to add value to the action sports community.

— Travis Pastrana

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

— Dan Barker

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

— Paul Mooney

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

— Vince Lombardi

There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.

— Lynne Stewart

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

— Seneca the Younger