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

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Ambrose Bierce

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. Edwards Deming

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
Neale Donald Walsch

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
Barney Frank

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Barney Frank

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Eric Hoffer

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude Stein

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?
Jon Stewart

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
Marshall McLuhan

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman