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Quotes About Action

would have preferred to do was charge
~ Jay Giles
El objetivo número tres, consistente en lograr que el público haga algo o deje de hacerlo
~ Jay Heinrichs
Aristotle himself said that to get someone to take an action you need to build desire.
~ Jay Heinrichs
I have convictions, and the courage of my convictions allows me to overcome my fears and act in a courageous manner...
~ Jay Kopelman
I wished I'd thought of that last before I'd departed. It might have been good advice to give out in my final days in Copper Downs, had I been able to fit such a conversation in between my busy schedule of murder, arson, and funerary rites.
~ Jay Lake
We put great expectations on our tomorrows when we truly need to rely on ourselves. Far too many overlook personal action, as a means to get things done. Blame is easily passed if one does not hold themselves accountable.
~ Jay Long
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it.
~ Jay Luvaas
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
~ Jay Maisel
Now is not the time to grow weary in the face of evil. Now is not the time to allow our hunger for peace to obscure our enemy's desire for war. Innocent lives are at stake, and immense evil is on the march. Let's call our nation to action again.
~ Jay Sekulow
Now that, would be a really dumb ass thing to do.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
~ Jean Anouilh
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
~ Jean Anouilh
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
~ Jean Anouilh
Please, do remember what I told you, and don't open the script until I decide you should. You must first spend a great deal of time getting to know the subtext for the character as it develops, and making it secure. The actual words must only serve the action, they are one of the external
~ Jean Benedetti
I might not know every step of my journey, but standing still wouldn't accomplish a thing. Sometimes you just had to take a step, whatever the direction, and see what happened.
~ Jean Brashear
Haz la guerra! Haz la guerra a tu cobardía, a tu pereza, a tu ignorancia, a tu presunción, a tu dolor. Haz la guerra primero, y el amor os será dado
~ Jean Cau
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
~ Jean Claude Van Damme
Mieux vaut allumer une petite lanterne que maudire les ténèbres
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Nu vorbea decât de dragoste, agitând bombe. Aprindea ruguri, dar nu voia s? vad? decât lumina lor.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
The hard decisions," Ridgway added, "are not the ones you make in the heat of battle. Far harder to make are those involved in speaking your mind about some hare-brained scheme, which proposes to commit troops to action under conditions where failure is almost certain, and the only results will be the needless sacrifice of priceless lives.
~ Jean Edward Smith
I cannot do this," she remembered thinking to herself, but she went anyway. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do," she wrote later, supplying her own emphasis.
~ Jean Edward Smith
The country needs, the country demands, bold, persistent experimentation. Take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~ Jean Edward Smith
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
~ Jean Francois Revel
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
~ Jean Genet