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Quotes About Action

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
~ Victoria Pratt
Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.
~ Carlos Andres Gomez
All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.
~ Philip Bobbitt
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
~ Wangari Maathai
Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.
~ Frances Lear
Words are women, deeds are men.
~ George Herbert
There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.
~ Gloria Feldt
If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.
~ James Ellroy
We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.
~ James Mangold
You have to do what you have to do.
~ Jason 'J' Brown
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
~ Katee Sackhoff
I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.
~ Maggie Tabberer
I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.
~ Melissa Rosenberg
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.
~ Morris Chestnut
I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.
~ Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
You can't ask the women to do anymore. It's time for us as Black men to step up and be what we're supposed to be.
~ Steve Harvey
So women just seized the opportunity.
~ Zhang Xi
He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.
~ Horace