Top 100 Quotes About Action
#1. A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
W. H. Auden
#2. Theology alone doesn't convine anyone.
Only those words which are pregnant with action, theology that is born of suffering, of struggles, of the poor
this theology is a testimony. This theology leads to conversion. (Leonardo Boff, p. 169)
Mev Puleo
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Amazon
#4. Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
David Deida
#5. Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
Ziggy Marley
#6. I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.
Raphael Lemkin
#7. To stay grounded and feel secure,
I choose:
Faith over fear;
Action over procrastination;
Focus over distraction;
Reflection over reaction.
Charles F. Glassman
#8. The destiny of future generations depends on our action today
Sunday Adelaja
#9. The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
Barbara Tuchman
#10. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
Albert Einstein
#11. I have always really liked Tom Jones and I can't wait to see him in action. One thing is for sure, I would rather be singing for a living than getting punched on the head.
Ricky Hatton
#12. No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.
Sarada Devi
#14. Whoever is missing in action turns
Into a flower, after he reappears
In stories, such as the old people were
Telling...
Simeon Dumdum Jr.
#15. If you're not doing what you want to do. However, you still think about it every day. This means you have not given up. Only you know what action will make it happen and thought is an action. Keep focusing on what you want to do and figure out how to turn your thoughts into reality ...
James A. Murphy
#16. I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
Nora Ephron
#17. Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature ... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.
William Bernbach
#18. I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.
Aubrey Plaza
#19. Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?
Jon Stewart
#20. The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.
Henry Adams
#22. To build a positive attitude you must take some deliberate action. You must be responsible for your thoughts, words, and actions.
John Patrick Hickey
#23. I only watch the last 40 seconds. Watching a whole marathon over time, the beginning, middle and end look very slow. I want to see action! I can't help it.
Apolo Ohno
#24. I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. In this respect, as in many others, it's like democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible consequences of alternative courses of action.
Carl Sagan
#26. Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#28. The best players are always in the thick of the action. (Michael) Jordan did it with the Bulls, (Kobe) Bryant does it with the Lakers and Leo does it here. We want him to stay with us because he's the best and we wouldn't swap him for anyone.
Ronaldinho
#29. Playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar was the most thrilling thing I've done. You get these speeches that were written for men, and you're running around like an action hero, climbing scaffolding and beating people up. It was very freeing.
Cush Jumbo
#30. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
Margaret Chan
#31. Hope is the flower of the soul. Let it bloom with action and persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
Oswald Chambers
#33. You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
Andy Grove
#34. I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action.
David Ginola
#35. If there is an action scene, I want to do everything myself.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#36. Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.
Joyce Meyer
#37. I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.
Anushka Sharma
#38. You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some times just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine.
Ed Foreman
#39. It's not enough that we voice good intentions. We must back them with action.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding
Will Durant
#41. After all, there is nothing like a mother telling you that you're making a bad decision to convince you that what you are doing is the absolute best course of action.
Emily Giffin
#42. In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.
Ralph McGehee
#44. Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.
James MacDonald
#45. But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford.
Douglas Adams
#46. Curiosity helps to create emotional distance in which people are able to "just notice" their internal states, without taking immediate action to try to shift these states.
David Emerson
#47. Action isn't just the effect of motivation; it's also the cause of it.
Mark Manson
#48. Let us ask God to make us true in our love, to make us sacrificial beings, for it seems to me that sacrifice is only love put into action.
Elizabeth Of The Trinity
#49. Because trust earned by action is always better than words.
Tim Seeley
#50. Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
Wendell Berry
#51. I want to do an action movie so badly, it just has to happen at some point in my career. I have to do an action movie. Like, I want to do the Angelina Jolie thing - the guns and the blowing things up.
Mark Indelicato
#52. I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventually be allowed to do a big dumb action movie, honestly.
Doug Liman
#53. 'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
John Prendergast
#54. In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.
Emily Thorne
#55. God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#56. Americans revered action and were suspicious of intellect, associating the life of the mind with the languid, ineffectual European aristocracy they had left behind.
Susan Cain
#57. For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.
Jeffrey Toobin
#58. It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.
M.F. Moonzajer
#59. When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action.
Marshall Sylver
#60. But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.
George Carey
#61. One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#62. Kissing her just then felt perfectly normal and completely self-explanatory, the only possible course of action.
Tom Perrotta
#63. Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
Brian Tracy
#64. I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action
no matter what the action is
might help you feel better.
A. J. Jacobs
#65. The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something rather than waiting, of following what seemed to be the call of my life.
Tracy L. Higley
#66. Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
Andre Maurois
#67. Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Paul Wolfowitz
#68. Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#69. Taking action in alignment with your gifts, talents, and strengths will start to break down the door of fear and doubt. What you will find on the other side is simply divine.
Charles F. Glassman
#70. I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies.
Derrick Jensen
#71. An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad
#72. Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well.
John Bruna
#73. If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come true you've got to get up and take action.
Toni Sorenson
#74. ...he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for shaping the world.
Laini Taylor
#75. Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
Peter Garrett
#76. I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.
David Pocock
#77. However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#78. Rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.
Lester Bangs
#79. By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.
Janet Evanovich
#80. Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
Laozi
#82. Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King
#83. We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#84. You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.
Jaggi Vasudev
#85. I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.
Veronica Roth
#86. Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
John Cusack
#87. I haven't had any action since the late seventies, so don't make me jealous. I don't think my heart can handle an erection.
Elle Aycart
#88. The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes
use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.
Benito Perez Galdos
#89. Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#90. Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.
Deepak Chopra
#91. I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...
Winifred Holtby
#92. I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
Adrian Tomine
#93. The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#94. Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#95. Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.
Diana Gabaldon
#96. Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
Nancy Kress
#97. Christianity is the gayest religion, you know. Its core commandment to men is to form a deep lifelong partnership with ANOTHER MAN. It demands real man-on-man, man-on-Jesus love action, no holds barred. It's the most homophilic religion in the universe.
Joe
#98. Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.
Elizabeth Janeway
#99. Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way.
Dan Miller
