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Action Quotes


"[People] must use bold words and bold actions to rid our world of fear."

Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote   Source: Barbara Deming
"imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively..."

Full 'Immanuel Kant' Quote   Source: Immanuel Kant
"who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more..."

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get"

Full 'John Galsworthy' Quote   Source: John Galsworthy
"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."

Full 'Joseph Conrad' Quote   Source: Joseph Conrad
"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a..."

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true..."

Full 'George Washington' Quote   Source: George Washington
"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be"

Full 'Immanuel Kant' Quote   Source: Immanuel Kant
"moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."

Full 'Michael Korda' Quote   Source: Michael Korda
"Action cures fear, inaction creates terror"

Full 'Doug Horton' Quote   Source: Doug Horton
"Action is always better than rumination."

Full 'Faye Kellerman' Quote   Source: Faye Kellerman
"Action is the antidote to despair."

Full 'Joan Baez' Quote   Source: Joan Baez
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without"

Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote   Source: Benjamin Disraeli
"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."

Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote   Source: Hannah Arendt
"Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile."

Full 'Mary Ritter Beard' Quote   Source: Mary Ritter Beard
"Actions speak more loudly than good grammar"

Full 'Adrienne Gusoff' Quote   Source: Adrienne Gusoff
"Affirmative action is the attempt to deal with malignant racism by"

Full 'Elliott Larson' Quote   Source: Elliott Larson
"Affirmative action, based mainly on race, is counterproductive. Financial..."

Full 'Auren Hoffman' Quote   Source: Auren Hoffman
"All human actions are equivalent. . . and. . . all are on principle doomed"

Full 'Jean Paul Sartre' Quote   Source: Jean Paul Sartre
"Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its..."

Full 'Paula Nelson' Quote   Source: Paula Nelson
"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an..."

Full 'Joseph Conrad' Quote   Source: Joseph Conrad
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

Full 'Friedrich Engels' Quote   Source: Friedrich Engels
"somebody, what you do is take appropriate action... You don't run away from..."

Full 'Janet Reno' Quote   Source: Janet Reno
"are used to disguise,not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by..."

Full 'Gore Vidal' Quote   Source: Gore Vidal
"nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will..."

Full 'Jacques Chirac' Quote   Source: Jacques Chirac
"Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of"

Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote   Source: Henry David Thoreau
"clarified by faith, and the individual's action towards its achievement...."

Full 'Thom Thompson' Quote   Source: Thom Thompson
"Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The..."

Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote   Source: William Gilmore Simms
"By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the"

Full 'Richard Nixon' Quote   Source: Richard Nixon
"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Full 'Charles de Gaulle' Quote   Source: Charles de Gaulle
"between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our..."

Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote   Source: Blaise Pascal
"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."

Full 'Luigi Pirandello' Quote   Source: Luigi Pirandello
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream..."

Full 'Anais Nin' Quote   Source: Anais Nin
"Effective action is always unjust."

Full 'Jean Anouilh' Quote   Source: Jean Anouilh
"Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book."

Full 'Martin Luther' Quote   Source: Martin Luther
"himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it,..."

Full 'Charles de Gaulle' Quote   Source: Charles de Gaulle
"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the..."

Full 'Thomas Fuller' Quote   Source: Thomas Fuller
"Fear prevents action and action prevents fear."

Full 'Peter Nivio Zarlenga' Quote   Source: Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it...."

Full 'Mary Kay Ash' Quote   Source: Mary Kay Ash
"popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and..."

Full 'Corazon Aquino' Quote   Source: Corazon Aquino
"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to..."

Full 'Bergen Evans' Quote   Source: Bergen Evans
"God considered not action, but the spirit of the action. It is the..."

Full 'Peter Abelard' Quote   Source: Peter Abelard
"God isn't dead--he's just missing in action."

Full 'Phil Ochs' Quote   Source: Phil Ochs
"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds."

Full 'Miguel De Cervantes' Quote   Source: Miguel De Cervantes
"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break..."

Full 'Indira Gandhi' Quote   Source: Indira Gandhi
"its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their..."

Full 'Karl Marx' Quote   Source: Karl Marx
"Honest hearts produce honest actions."

Full 'Brigham Young' Quote   Source: Brigham Young
"hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or..."

Full 'Peter Quennell' Quote   Source: Peter Quennell
"Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find"

Full 'George Eliot' Quote   Source: George Eliot
"you are if you have faith and plan of action...."

Full 'Fidel Castro' Quote   Source: Fidel Castro
"It is time for us to regain a sense of action in the service of all French..."

Full 'Jacques Chirac' Quote   Source: Jacques Chirac
"disregard their talk and judge only their actions...."

Full 'Dorothy Day' Quote   Source: Dorothy Day
"but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation...."

Full 'Belva Lockwood' Quote   Source: Belva Lockwood
"words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results...."

Full 'Florence Nightingale' Quote   Source: Florence Nightingale
"violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my..."

Full 'Indira Gandhi' Quote   Source: Indira Gandhi
"karate and my overblown empty-headed action movies...."

Full 'Jean Claude Van Damme' Quote   Source: Jean Claude Van Damme
"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and..."

Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote   Source: Blaise Pascal
"necessarily passes through the world of action."

Full 'Dag Hammarskjold' Quote   Source: Dag Hammarskjold
"our control, in the same way that overt actions are: I can shake anybody by..."

Full 'W K Clifford' Quote   Source: W K Clifford
"Introduces Mr. Intention to Mss. Action and they may marry and have..."

Full 'Joseph Cubby' Quote   Source: Joseph Cubby
"deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had..."

Full 'Edward Gibbon' Quote   Source: Edward Gibbon
"wisdom ever to commend or discommend the actions of men by their success;..."

Full 'Sir Walter Raleigh' Quote   Source: Sir Walter Raleigh
"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect...."

Full 'Robert Louis Stevenson' Quote   Source: Robert Louis Stevenson
"satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it..."

Full 'Charlotte Bronte' Quote   Source: Charlotte Bronte
"anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and..."

Full 'Gillian Anderson' Quote   Source: Gillian Anderson
"Life and death do not wait for legal action."

Full 'Daphne Dumaurier' Quote   Source: Daphne Dumaurier
"penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new..."

Full 'Leo Tolstoy' Quote   Source: Leo Tolstoy
"Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions."

Full 'Thomas Kempis' Quote   Source: Thomas Kempis
"Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or"

Full 'Homer' Quote   Source: Homer
"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but..."

Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote   Source: Heinrich Heine
"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who..."

Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote   Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
"wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy ? he's one of..."

Full 'Jay Leno' Quote   Source: Jay Leno
"Never mistake motion for action."

Full 'Ernest Hemingway' Quote   Source: Ernest Hemingway
"Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect..."

Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote   Source: Barbara Deming
"substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character."

Full 'Robert Musil' Quote   Source: Robert Musil
"is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

Full 'Ian Fleming' Quote   Source: Ian Fleming
"One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere"

Full 'D H Lawrence' Quote   Source: D H Lawrence
"today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our..."

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"they will not fail to perform virtuous actions...."

Full 'Martin Luther' Quote   Source: Martin Luther
"other so that you have more avenues of action open to you...."

Full 'Howard Hughes' Quote   Source: Howard Hughes
"to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go"

Full 'Andrew Jackson' Quote   Source: Andrew Jackson
"it's rewards until you translate it into action...."

Full 'Mohammed' Quote   Source: Mohammed
"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed"

Full 'Thomas Carlyle' Quote   Source: Thomas Carlyle
"think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort..."

Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote   Source: Ezra Pound
"great end of life is not knowledge but action."

Full 'Thomas Huxley' Quote   Source: Thomas Huxley
"greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it"

Full 'Charles Lamb' Quote   Source: Charles Lamb
"The merit of an action lies in finishing it to the end."

Full 'Genghis Khan' Quote   Source: Genghis Khan
"truth can be learned from beholding this action."..."

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Full 'Carl Sandberg' Quote   Source: Carl Sandberg
"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less..."

Full 'John F Kennedy' Quote   Source: John F Kennedy
"-- freedom of thought and freedom of action...."

Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote   Source: W. Somerset Maugham
"Think first about the action that is right to take, and think later about"

Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote   Source: Barbara Deming
"Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping"

Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote   Source: Barbara Deming
"difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult..."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought."

Full 'Doug Horton' Quote   Source: Doug Horton
"purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide..."

Full 'Tyron Edwards' Quote   Source: Tyron Edwards
"have to say I prefer Shakespeare to the action stuff...."

Full 'Keanu Reeves' Quote   Source: Keanu Reeves
"Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it,..."

Full 'James Agee' Quote   Source: James Agee
"to our power and enlarges our field of action...."

Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote   Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
"words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they..."

Full 'Frank Outlaw' Quote   Source: Frank Outlaw
"learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific,..."

Full 'Benjamin Jowett' Quote   Source: Benjamin Jowett
"reality, I've learned to listen only to the action...."

Full 'Judith M. Knowlton' Quote   Source: Judith M. Knowlton
"many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Full 'Abigail Adams' Quote   Source: Abigail Adams
"the mixed-age play group, whose natural action is almost constant..."

Full 'David Pratt' Quote   Source: David Pratt
""conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a..."

Full 'Helen Rowland' Quote   Source: Helen Rowland
"does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the..."

Full 'Luigi Pirandello' Quote   Source: Luigi Pirandello
"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

Full 'Pat Riley' Quote   Source: Pat Riley