Action Quotes

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?

~ Idries Shah

We are limited only by our unwillingness to take action.

~ Steven Redhead

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

~ Orrin Woodward

This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss… this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.

~ Steve Maraboli

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.

~ Orrin Woodward

You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.

~ Orrin Woodward

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

~ John G. Miller

Every breath we take from the airTakes oxygen from an insect’s lungs mid-prayerAnd every exhalation does loudly declareThat in the currency of life, we’re millionaires.A butterfly flapped it’s wings and Rome fellA passerby’s whistle cracked the liberty bellAnd I dare urge the daring not to yellLest we so bid a skyscraper a rough farewell.A snake’s tongue slithered and man did sinLet me tell you how the waves from a shark’s finDid set the tides on D-Day and let the allies win;Chance and destiny are identical twins.A word was spoken and the earth createdAnother phrase and the future was dictatedAnd so every action must be carefully weightedWe just never know how things are interrelated.

~ Justin Wetch

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

~ Jack Welch

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

~ Herbert Hoover

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

~ Quentin Bryce

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

~ Anushka Sharma

The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised.

~ William Hurt

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

~ Julie Klausner

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

~ Nadine Velazquez

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

~ Les Brown

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

~ Maximillian Degenerez

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

~ Giacomo Casanova

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.

~ Lee Tamahori

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

~ Richard L. Evans

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

~ Jules Renard

When you have little girls bringing you your action figures for you to sign, it's like, 'Wow, things are happening, and dreams do come true.'

~ Sasha Banks

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

~ Anaïs Nin

All men of action are dreamers.

~ James Huneker

I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

~ Linda Grant

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

~ Victoria Osteen

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

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.

~ David Morrell

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

~ B. H. Liddell Hart

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

~ Lytton Strachey

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

~ Mary Kay Ash

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

~ Arnold J. Toynbee

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

~ Mother Teresa

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

~ Joss Whedon

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

~ Hideki Tojo

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

~ Billie Jean King

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

~ Lawrence Schiller

I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.

~ Zakk Wylde

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in action sports, go snowboarding, skateboarding.

~ Amy Purdy

I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.

~ Rabih Alameddine