Quotes About Action

You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.

One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.

'The Last Witch Hunter' follows an immortal witch hunter played by Vin Diesel, and his job is to stop a plague from spreading and destroying the human race.

I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.

I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

I think nerves stop you from doing things. Make you stop and maybe make you withdraw. Then there's excitement where you can't wait to do it.

OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Approach each day with the same mindset that your opportunity can come within a blink of an eye.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.