Action Quotes

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.

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.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

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.