Action Quotes
-
Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.
Jack Canfield
-
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?
Lisa See
-
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger
-
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
-
For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
Jason Mraz
-
Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.
Barack Obama
-
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.
Martin Jacques
-
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Wendell Phillips
-
Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.
Donnie Yen
-
My stepfather was a military man: he was in the Air Force. Reserve. You thought he'd seen front-line action, but he was stationed in Cleveland.
Fred Willard
-
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan
-
I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.
Taylor Sheridan
-
True faith manifests itself through our actions.
Francis Chan
-
The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
-
I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.
Philippe Petit
-
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
-
A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
J. William Fulbright
-
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
Charlemagne
