You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
~ H. Jackson Brown
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
~ John C. Calhoun
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
~ Confucius
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.
~ Bono
If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.
~ James Wan
At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.
~ Jason Statham
No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
~ Richard Hammond
I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.
~ Ban Ki-Moon
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
~ Malcolm X
Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.
~ Sonny Chiba
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~ James Russell Lowell
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
~ Mara Brock Akil
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
~ Sidney Poitier
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
~ Beck
I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.
~ Liya Kebede
We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
~ Rain
My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
~ Corey Hart
There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
~ Randeep Hooda
Action is the foundational key to all success.
~ Pablo Picasso
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
~ Sun Yat-Sen
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
~ Keith Henson
Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
~ Akhenaton
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
~ Richard Savage
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
~ Max Carver
First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.
~ George Papandreou
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
~ Arthur Scargill
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.
~ Jack Canfield
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
~ Barry Commoner
It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.
~ Douglas Brinkley
