Action Quotes

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

Justice is truth in action.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.

Action is the antidote to despair.

I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.