Action Quotes

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action"

"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"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, Philosopher

"We are men of action, lies do not become us"

William Goldman, Novelist

"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress"

Bruce Barton, Author

"Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes"

Bill Klem, Athlete

"Courage follows action"

Mack R. Douglas, Businessman

"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic"

Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist

"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it"

Don Bluth, Artist

"So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist"

Edward Koch, Politician

"All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort"

Anna C. Brackett

"The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle"

James Hutton, Scientist

"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, Politician

"And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time"

David Blunkett, Politician

"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

"Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action"

Susan Collins, Politician

"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero"

Chow Yun-Fat, Actor

"I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face"

Piper Laurie, Actress

"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"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, Musician

"The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces"

Cleveland Abbe, Scientist

"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death"

Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptor

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often"

Mark Twain, Author

"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like"

Victor Hugo, Author

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