Action Quotes

• Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• I'm heartened that, for the first time, we're seeing some of the Internet Service Providers and the social media sites taking action against the Islamic State. That's the kind of initiative that can very, very much augment on an industrial scale what the government is trying to do.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Service

• Every action changes every other action. We return to our ABC's. Therefore every action in the present affects those actions which you call the past. Ripples from a thrown stone go to in all directions.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Past
  • Action
  • Present

• Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.

  

  Ben Schwartz
  • People
  • Live
  • Fun

• I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Long
  • Women
  • Trying

• I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Action

• It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Great
  • Action

• Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

  

  Francis Chan
  • Worship
  • Obligation
  • Explanation

• I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Writing

• True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Bad
  • True

• It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

  

  George Washington
  • Purpose
  • Rejected
  • Mislead

• If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your life and in the lives of whom your actions affect.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Love
  • Freedom

• The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Reason
  • Film
  • Incredibles

• I think what we do really want to do is make sure that we take chemical weapons away from Syrians. And I do as well believe that because of the threats that have come from the United States, that Russia and Syria both understand that there needs to be some action.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Believe
  • Action

• Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Time
  • Planet

• Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

  

  Agnes Bruckner
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Action

• We ain't never duckin' beef, bitch, we not vegan My lil' niggas 'bout that action, they be Glock squeezin' Red beams on his head, now his top leakin' I heard that boy got man down and now the opps grievin'

  

  Polo G
  • Never
  • Vegan
  • Grieving

• It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.

  

  Christopher Lambert
  • May
  • Movie
  • Mistake

• History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood
  • History
  • True
  • Action

• If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Action

• Action films unfortunately don't let you spend a lot of time sitting. So you don't have much time to create something indelible or unique.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Time
  • Action
  • Unique

• Now the origin of the universe that you know, as I have described it, was of course a master event. The initial action did not occur in space or time, but formed space and time.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Time
  • Space
  • Universe

• The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

  

  John Bates Clark
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Competition

• Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

  

  Jerome Kern
  • Character
  • Personality
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