Action Quotes

• Our beliefs are really rules for action.

  

  William James
  • Action
  • Belief

• Remember, it's not what you do but that you do something that matters.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Remember
  • Action
  • Matter

• Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first.

  

  Mike Todd
  • Remember
  • Action
  • Stealing

• If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

  

  Saskya Pandita
  • Man
  • Action
  • Enemies

• When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Action
  • Worry

• Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Natural
  • Behavior

• I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

  

  Sharni Vinson
  • Action
  • Dancer
  • Crosses

• My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now dawning upon the world the magnitude of the action that the Soviets undertook in invading Afghanistan.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Action
  • Afghanistan
  • Soviets

• I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action ...

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Silence
  • Relationships
  • Content

• If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Lucky

• In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Cutting
  • Drawing
  • Hours

• Poverty is just a word. I mean, how do you dismantle capitalism? It's through small actions. It's through breaking down poverty as a lived experience of not enough food, of your health not being good. So those are things that we can actually work on without ever having to call a politician.

  

  Sunil Yapa
  • Experience
  • Politician
  • Capitalism

• There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Action
  • Risk
  • Failure

• What we are is serious. And you see us in action, so it's not in personas. It's in actions and it's what we do. And that's why Russia was left on an island when it came to Syria. Everyone else isolated them with their connection with Bashar Assad and Iran.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Action
  • Serious
  • Persona

• Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Action
  • Jesus
  • Lord

• What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Believe
  • Problem
  • Waiting

• Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Moments
  • Speak
  • Wonderful

• Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Running

• For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Action

• I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Action
  • Die
  • Heels

• Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Done
  • Moral
  • Psychology

• I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Action
  • Figures

• I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

  

  Thomas Nelson Page
  • Creation
  • Faces
  • Fine

• We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Action
  • Childhood

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