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

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
Aaliyah

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin

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

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee

Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira Gandhi

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.
Jay Leno

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba

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

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Henry Miller

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Miller

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey

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