Quotes About Action

No matter where we go in the state, I hear from Mainers that they are ready for someone to stand up for them in Washington.

As sportspeople, we have a power we don't even know. If we get together and talk, things change. If we stand up, people stand up with us.

We have to do what we think is right, even though we may have to stand up to some loud voices in our own parties in order to get something done.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead.

I can tell you that standard D.O.J. protocol is that you let official acts speak for themselves. You don't go and spin your action. For example, when I ran the Solicitor General's office, there would be all sorts of times when the litigants would make something up, and we would just never comment to the press. It is not what we do.

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

Just as Congress stands firmly against racism and other forms of prejudice, we must take action that loudly and clearly proclaims our resolve to combat anti-Semitism at home and around the world.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.