The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Never mistake motion for action.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

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

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Effective action is always unjust.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Never confuse motion with action.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs – hadn’t been done for a long time, and it’s illegal in most countries – in the air controller strike.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

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

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.