Action quotes

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.