In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.

Actions speak louder than words, and it’s no more true than with your kids.

My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.

I’m an athletic actor. I’m known for my action; I’m a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it’s the opposite. I get paid to do action.

Acting is about being true to yourself.

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

The spirit of unity and harmony will guide our policies and actions.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it character in action

When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God – and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer ‘Action!

A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions

A man full of hope will be full of action

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

There is no such thing as hell, of course, but if there was, then the sound track to the screaming, the pitchfork action and the infernal wailing of damned souls would be a looped medley of “show tunes” drawn from the annals of musical theater.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention

I think it’s really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I’m just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.

Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild.

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions

Man sees your actions, but God your motives

When you’re a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, “Okay, I’m basically out of action now for three months

Don’t let your circumstances define you; let your actions define you

For you, it’s gossip. For me, it’s action.

Words mean nothing without action.

Football has a thing: You have to decide on an action in a moment, and your head has to be fresh for taking that decision in the moment

Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.

Love needs to be proved by action.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophages and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood – and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are

It is in Europe that we are born and bred to a single role. America is populated by second acts, encores and revivals.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

It’s mainly been the case where I do very few live action roles – not out of choice but more out of not getting asked.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

We’re in Sarah Palin’s ‘targeted’ list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we’re in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they’ve got to realize that there are consequences to that action.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

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.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you

Great ideas originate in the muscles

valThe value of an idea lies in the using of it

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits

What you are will show in what you do.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature

We will not just say, “I love him very much,” but instead, “I will do something so that he will suffer less.” The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person’s suffering.

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand

Compassion is a verb

My actions are my only true belongings

There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child is in action and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone ‘happy’, no greater flattery than to grant him a ‘vein of melancholy’… This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Your true values are expressed in your actions, not your words.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

I don’t believe in luck, I believe in work.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one’s entire life, perhaps it would be ‘thoughtfulness.

You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.

Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Your actions must be just or full of pure intentions to provide His sacred service.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ‘Action, Action, Action.’

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

The action plan is a statement of intentions rather than a commitment. It must not become a straitjacket. It should be revised often, because every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

The time for words has now moved to the time for action.

There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

There is always a gap between intention and action.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.”

I love doing the action stuff. It’s soooo much fun!

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you’re acting.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Action is more important than meditation.

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

In order to carry out a positive action we must develop a positive vision.

Someone else’s action should not determine your response.

Someone else’s action should not determine your response.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

[Albert Einstein] is not challenging the fact of science; he is challenging the action of science. Not only is he challenging the action of science, but the action of science has surrendered to his challenge.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Action has a multitude of consequences. Thus the will has the right to repudiate the imputation of all consequences except the first, since it alone was purposed.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book.

The two primary moral questions. There are two sorts of problems concerning moral issues: where does good or bad action derive from? What makes an action bad or good

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

The heroic action of American law enforcement is the only force standing between us and total anarchy.

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Take action and believe in yourself. Dreams do come true.

If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head

I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action.

Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.

Any action is better than no action at all.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world.

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

I’m grabbing the clip and my n*gg*s screaming action. Screaming action, n*gg* we screaming action.

There is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action.