Top 1200 Good Action Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don’t wait for a convenient time. It can’t be overemphasized.

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

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

The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

The thing about action films is that they are high on drama in terms of action sequences, have songs and other things, but content is secondary.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.

There is good Karma, there is bad Karma, and as the wheel of life moves on, old Karma is exhausted and again fresh Karma is accumulated... Karma is twofold, hidden and manifest, Karma is the man that is, Karma is his action. True that each action is a cause from which evolves the countless ramifications of effect in time and space... To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility. As the existentialists would have it, we determine our own honor minute by minute, action by action, one decision at a time.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the one thing I've been trying to contribute. I still write things outside of architecture - not really fiction, but not nonfiction. I like dialogue as a form, because the text is only the trace of an action. The consequential information is carried in the action you choose to put on that text.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?

Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a reputation of being an action guy. That's something I probably try to avoid, but I seem to keep making action movies.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

Sometimes there are people who don't know how to make action movies - and that situation isn't a good one.

There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effects

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

When it comes to the Federal Reserve, there's an awful lot of books out there; in my library, I bet I've got 200 books if I've got any on the Federal Reserve. And we don't need any more books, we need action, and that's what the Liberty Dollar did, it gave people a way to take action. Our catch phrase was you want to "make money, do good, and have fun," and people really responded to that.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

In the battle between planning and action, action wins.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

I like action movies, and I prefer to watch a bad Hong Kong action movie to just about anything else.