Action Quotes

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.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

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.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.