France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
Napoleon
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Billings Learned Hand
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
When I take action, Im not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. Its going to be decisive.
George Walker Bush
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
Charlemagne
If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.
Georges Bataille
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
Lois McMaster Bujold
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.
Anon
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson