Action Quotes

• There as here, passions are the motive of all action, but they are livelier, more ardent, or merely simpler and purer, thereby assuming a totally different character. All the first movements of nature are good and right.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• 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
  • Action

• If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.

  

  Eliyahu Goldratt
  • People
  • Giving
  • Action

• Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.

  

  Jim Lee
  • People
  • Power
  • Justice

• We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'

  

  Molly Ivins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

  

  Jai Courtney
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• The EarthEcho World Water Monitoring Challenge is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to make the first step in taking action for clean water and healthy waterways worldwide.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Water

• It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • Home
  • Society

• We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• People are looking for a way to take action, to do something other than donate on the Turnpike on their way to work, which seems impersonal.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Donate

• Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Men
  • Tragedy

• Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Fun
  • Action

• What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Success
  • Government
  • Justice

• But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

  

  George Pierce Baker
  • Action
  • Drama

• Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

  

  Dave Freudenthal
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Judge

• It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Political
  • Science
  • Present

• I have been talking to trade ministers in various countries who all say that gender inclusivity is important to them. We need to make this importance visible to the rest of the world and catalyse action towards more inclusive trade.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • World
  • Important
  • Rest

• I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Political
  • Action

• With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Movie
  • Action

• I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Action
  • Actor
  • Translated

• A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language ... not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Fear
  • Emotions
  • Tragedy

• Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Life
  • High
  • Hope

• Whether it is a call to action for blood drives, disaster relief, or just community outreach, the American Red Cross does an extraordinary job at not only meeting the immediate needs of a community, but also the preparation and planning for long-term support.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Long
  • Job
  • American

• Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

  

  John Shimkus
  • History
  • Law
  • December

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