Action Quotes · Page 29

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

— Anonymous

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

— Will Rogers

“Everything will not change without real action.”

— Kharisma M

Awareness without action is worthless.

— Phil McGraw

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

— Mark Twain

I like action-adventure movies.

— Ian Ziering

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

— James Burgh

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

— Saint Augustine

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

— Augustine Birrell

“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”

— Priya Ardis

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

— Homer

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

— David O. McKay

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

— William Howard Taft

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

— Steve Jobs

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only…

— Charlton Laird

Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action…

— Hideo Kojima

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers…

— Fred Brooks

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

— Therese Fowler

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in…

— Randy Cohen

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another…

— Stanley Milgram

I think child stars have a leg up, actually, because they have an innate sense of what creative problem solving is all…

— Ron Howard

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This…

— W. Somerset Maugham

My father . . . used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father…

— Sylvia Boorstein

It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do…

— Thomas J. Paprocki

'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the…

— Gene Roddenberry

I'm a long way from being evicted [at the age of 14], but I'll never forget it. I'll never forget the feeling.…

— Dwayne Johnson

When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.…

— Lily Yeh

Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a…

— Frank Stella

I am not saying this to serve as a justification for the things [Pablo Escobar] did, but rather to demonstrate the context…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained…

— Thomas Jefferson

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You are what you do. It's about actions.

— Bill Maher

“Support is not enough: action is required!”

— I Love the way you love me

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

All actions without love are just like dust in the air.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

Nothing quells anxiety like action!

— Walter Inglis Anderson

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

— Mitt Romney

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann