We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush Limbaugh

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.
George W. Bush

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck

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.
James A. Baldwin

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Immanuel Kant