Good Action Quotes

35 quotes by 32 authors

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. — Aristotle
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it.… — Swami Vivekananda
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire… — Ramana Maharshi
I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that… — Ramakrishna
No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good… — Samuel Smiles
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier… — Alexander Pope
Reading is good, action is better. — Eric Ries
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others. — Philip Sidney
The profit on a good action is to have done it. — Seneca the Younger
I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work. — Jan de Bont
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it. — Michael J. Fox
If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well… — Justin Cronin
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. — Michael Korda
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. — Charles Lamb
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too. — Dolph Lundgren
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward,… — Mary McCarthy
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. — Sylvester Stallone

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