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Quotes About Action

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
~ Confucius
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
~ Clint Eastwood
When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.
~ Keanu Reeves
I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
~ Keanu Reeves
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
~ Andrew Carnegie
I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
~ James Hetfield
I would love to be in an action movie. I've always wanted to play the hacker guy - like, the Jewy hacker guy who just gets yelled at.
~ Ad-Rock
'Monster Hunter' was its own series, its own franchise, and it just so happened that we wanted to make a realistic fantasy-based action game, and because we had the staff available to make something like that, we're able to make this game. The ideas for 'Dragon's Dogma' came from a completely different place.
~ Hideaki Itsuno
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
~ Charles Spurgeon
In Donald Trump, you have a candidate who knows the difference between wanting something done and making it happen.
~ Ivanka Trump
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
~ Matthew Barney
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
~ Gioconda Belli
I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. Does that make sense?
~ Michael Gambon
For years, I've been wanting to do something that has a bit more of a dramatical drive and combine it with some action.
~ Jason Statham
You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically.
~ Nicolas Cage
Seriously, if people tune in and watch 'Falling Skies,' they will see a show that will excite them, move them, and will leave them wanting more!
~ Maxim Knight
I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.
~ Jamila Woods
Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
~ Jules Renard
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
~ George S. Patton
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Quickness is the essence of the war.
~ Sun Tzu
The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.
~ Chiang Kai-shek