Action Quotes · Page 92

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

— Aristotle

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

— John Locke

When 'I' released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine.

— Amy Jackson

“The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.”

— Steve Maraboli

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

— Brian Tracy

Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.

— C. T. Vivian

“You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate”

— Phillip Gary Smith

Either you wake up and start working for it, or let it stay a dream.

— Anonymous

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering…

— Gautama Buddha

I love the way the Cardiff fans get behind their team, which is why I do that clenched fist action at the…

— Neil Warnock

I was inspired by the great West Indian fast bowler Joel Garner's action. I gained confidence knowing I was emulating his action…

— Wasim Akram

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making…

— John McDonnell

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

— Cesar Chavez

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our…

— Denis Waitley

Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan…

— John Ratcliffe

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one…

— Martin McDonagh

“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical…

— Susan Sontag

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free…

— Benjamin Franklin

The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and…

— Maimonides

There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their…

— Samuel Adams

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest…

— Calvin Coolidge

Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful…

— William Merritt Chase

People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act... . They…

— Wang Yangming

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

— Alexander Pushkin

In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.

— Leo Baeck

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

— Chris Crutcher

“Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.”

— Robert Radcliffe

You have the Power to change a life. Now, go out and do it and do it in way that makes it…

— Kaoru Shinmon

“Create your own miracles; do what you think you cannot do.”

— Roy T. Bennett

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

— C. Everett Koop

The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

— Ovid

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

— Nicholas Stern

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

— Agatha Christie

Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!!

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.

— Olivier Megaton

I've made one action movie. But nobody saw it, so I guess that doesn't count for most people.

— James Wan

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

— Thomas Menino

I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.

— Alan Taylor