Action Quotes · Page 178

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

— Devon Sawa

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

— Sophocles

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

— Zig Ziglar

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

— Thomas Carlyle

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

— Robert South

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

— Frank Herbert

Stop waiting. It's been long enough. Its better to act, and see what happens, and learn from it.

— Swami Premodaya

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if…

— Rex Stout

I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and…

— Ryan Sheckler

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

— Rupert Murdoch

When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your…

— J. C. Ryle

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is,…

— George Washington

Our rising generation is worthy of our best efforts to support and strengthen them in their journey to adulthood. … In every…

— Ronald A. Rasband

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage…

— Anton Seidl

Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they…

— John Carroll

Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to…

— Alvin Toffler

[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are…

— Rob Bell

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the…

— E. Stanley Jones

What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your…

— Russell Banks

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time…

— Nick Lampson

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

— Laozi

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

— David Allen

The action scenes you'll see in 'Saaho' are all real - it's going to look fantastic.

— Prabhas

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

— Li Mu

Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul.

— Hal Elrod

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

— David Mamet

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

— Zig Ziglar

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

— Aristotle

“Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.”

— Karen Azinger

I love action. I love doing fight scenes; I always have. I love it.

— Kit Harington

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

— Andre Gide

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

— David Gemmell

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

— Jackie Collins

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

— Maria Edgeworth

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

— Hafez

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

— Anonymous