Action Quotes

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.

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

No action is without its side effects.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

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.