Action quotes

Get motivated and inspired with our extensive collection of action-packed quotes, encouraging you to seize the day and make a positive impact.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- James Russell Lowell

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

- John Mason Brown

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

- Earl Blumenauer

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

- Robert Hughes

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

- Zoe Saldana

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

- James Callaghan

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

- Indira Gandhi

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

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

- Mike Lowry

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

- Confucius

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

- Liam Neeson

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

- Jason Statham

Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.

- Henry Winkler

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

- Tony Scott

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

- Marvin Minsky

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

- Tony Scott

But in action, one defies one's character.

- Daniel Bell

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

- Pythagoras

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

- Barbara Deming

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

- Mike Lowry

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

- Luigi Pirandello

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

- George Gillespie

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

- Shane West

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

- Jan de Bont

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

- Jason Statham

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

- Tony Scott

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

- George P. Baker

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

- Mike Lowry

When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

- Darren L. Johnson