Quotes About Action

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

So many people say, "I'm a good person!" Like, why are you a good person? To be a good person you have to actively be good.

The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.

No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.

Learn to be good for something.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

Be good. Do something good.

I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

A good deed is a good deed.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.