Action Quotes

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy.

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.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

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.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.