Action famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
-- Aaliyah -
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
-- Abdallah II -
Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.
-- Abdul Kalam -
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
-- Abdul Kalam -
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
-- Abigail Adams -
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
-- Abraham Verghese -
...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
-- Abu Bakr -
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
-- Abu Bakr -
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
-- Adam Clarke -
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
-- Adam McKay -
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.
-- Adrian Grenier -
A practical girl never pines; she takes action.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
-- Agatha Christie -
I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
-- Al Gore -
It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
-- Al Sharpton -
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
-- Alain de Botton -
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.
-- Alan Bennett -
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
-- Alan Hirsch -
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
-- Alan Hirsch -
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.
-- Alan Keyes -
I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.
-- Alan Sugar -
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
-- Albert Bandura -
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
-- Albert Bandura -
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
-- Albert Bandura -
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
-- Albert Camus -
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
-- Albert Einstein -
Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
-- Aldous Huxley -
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
-- Alexander Pope -
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
-- Alexis Carrel -
To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.
-- Alexis Herman -
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.
-- Alice Cary -
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
-- Alice Childress -
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
-- Allan Massie -
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
-- Allen Newell -
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
-- Allen Wheelis -
I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take...
-- Alyson Noel -
Personally, when I go to Tulum, I prefer to be near the action but not in the midst of it.
-- Amanda Hearst -
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
-- Amira Hass -
It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.
-- Amy Dickinson -
To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
-- Andre Agassi -
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
-- Andre Gide -
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 -
I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.
-- Andrea Corr -
The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.
-- Andrew Davidson -
This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.
-- Andrew Klavan -
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
-- Andrew Young -
There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.
-- Andy Andrews -
Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
-- Andy Andrews -
Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.
-- Andy Gilbert -
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 -
Without Visitors who are enticed to take action when presented with your offers, all you have is a hobby.
-- Andy Jenkins -
For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
-- Andy Serkis -
Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
-- Andy Stanley -
3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
-- Ang Lee -
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
-- Anita Shreve -
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
-- Ann Plato -
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
-- Ann Voskamp -
What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Being a part of the action is just incredible. I loved doing stunt stuff. I loved learning to ride.
-- Anna Popplewell -
The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.
-- Anne Fadiman -
... I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ...
-- Anne Morice -
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.
-- Ansel Elgort -
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
-- Anthony Anderson -
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
-- Anthony Eden
