Action Quotes · Page 101

I think as far as the action genre goes, I like when it has a sense of humor. I'm a Jane Austen/Jane…

— Maggie Grace

I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

— Moby

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...

— Thomas Merton

A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.

— Brian Martin

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

— Mary Baker Eddy

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are.

— Paolo Giordano

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

— Benjamin Franklin

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as…

— Gustav Heinemann

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man.…

— Anonymous

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been…

— Bernard Baruch

That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces…

— Adrian Grenier

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each…

— Thomas Perry

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless…

— Abdul Kalam

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or…

— Jean Genet

Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give…

— Deepak Chopra

[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character…

— Jean-Paul Marat

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very…

— Wilhelm Reich

Although time seems to fly, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to…

— Steve Maraboli

I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to…

— Barack Obama

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the…

— Winston Churchill

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place…

— Abraham Maslow

First say to yourself what you want to be; and then do what you have to do.

— Kishore Bansal

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.

— Gordon Wu

I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality.

— Sunny Deol

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

— Joseph Lancaster

“Theories might inspire you, but experiments will advance you.”

— Amit Kalantri

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

— Abigail Adams

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.”

— Mark Manson

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

— Nido R Qubein

From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.

— Disha Patani

Sometime the greatest rewards in life comes from doing things that scare you the most

— Jesse Joseph

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

— Learned Hand

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

— John F. Kennedy

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

— John Dryden

“When it's sunny, why not spend some time dressing up and go out to have a walk!”

— Tachibana Higuchi

I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.

— Josh Peck