Quotes of: Action-movies Keyword

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

Bullet

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

Bhagavad Gita: El Canto del Senor

If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?

Black and White

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

Anushka Sharma

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

Jack Canfield

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Krista Tippett

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Juan Goytisolo

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Sallust

Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.

44 Days of Leadership

I rely on one thing in this world: my actions. I will leave nothing to chance and prefer playing the game of life with the strongest hand possible.

Adam's Apple

The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.

A Hero For WondLa

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

The Idiot

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Jane Eyre

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Justine

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

The King Must Die

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Killosophy

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Killosophy

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.

Relevance: Matter More

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.

Rights of Man