Quotes About Action

Thought is the parent of the deed.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

I never thought I would say this, but I'm desperate to do an action film.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

I like acting impulsively, but I'm also extremely thoughtful about what I do. So, it's not like someone would say 'Don't do something,' and I'd automatically go, 'I'm gonna do it anyway.'

Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.

When you have a thousand children that die a day from lack of drinking water, that's a crisis and that's a crisis that we - we collectively as the world - know how to solve that problem. We know what it takes but we haven't had the will internationally to solve that problem.

In practical terms, you're only responsible for what you say and do. Beware frittering away this precious lifetime by trying to make it all about energy. You asked for a human life, and now you've got one.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Carson put a hand on my butt and shoved. Honestly, I'd seen more action since meeting him than I had in all of high school.

you show me a man what strikes while the iron is hot and I'll show you a man with a whole mess of third degree burns… Monroe D. Underwood

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river

Some are so impulsive that, even if they could think of more than one solution, they've already done the first thing that popped into their heads. The bad news is that the first solution is often the worst one, the one that required the least amount of reflection and thought, which probably explains why some kids are notorious for putting their worst foot forward

Vote. Even if they are all hopelessly inadequate, pick the least terrible one and vote. My mother fought hard to get you that vote.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.