Top 1200 Good Action Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Germans aren't action fans. The only kind of action that really works is 'Bond.'

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

Coming from an action background, I always approach the action sequences in any script as kind of placeholders.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

Dear Procrastinator: Taking action in and of itself is not difficult, but is in fact satisfying and is usually followed by a sense of pride & accomplishment. However, it is THINKING about the action that you should be taking and NOT taking it that's difficult, as it leaves you feeling guilty and unsatisfied. THE SOLUTION: Stop thinking and take action NOW.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

I used to watch a lot of action movies and I felt this country loves action.

Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.

Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.

I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.

For whatever reason, I think we have one type of animated movie and it's so wrong. I want to do a drama, I want to do an action, a comedy. In live-action, there are all sorts of movies. There's independent movies, big movies, action movies, funny movies, and for us we have one movie.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing now is the right thing, your main concern should be taking care of yourself, and not doing action at your age." Well, after first feeling angry, I'd think, to be honest, I really am older. So I thought, all right, but before I retire I'd like to make one last major action film, one good one.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.

I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York.

I'd love to do action-y types of films; you know, as long as they're good stories.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.

I'm really up for the challenge physically to go into sci-fi action, thinking-man's action.

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

As for action, yes 'Wanted' was a success in the action genre. But not to the extent of 'Dabangg.'

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Fracture of the patella may be produced by muscular action or by direct violence. When produced by muscular action, it occurs thus: a person in danger of falling forwards attempts to recover himself by throwing the body backwards, and the violent action of the quadriceps extensor upon the patella snaps the bone transversely across.

Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable. Helping our planet is not a one-person or one-country job; we need to be good partners and good neighbors to one another. Routine, measurable, and collective actions both small and large will make an impact.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)