Action Quotes

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

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

I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!

Every person's every action has an effect.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.