Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel De Cervantes

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
Spike Lee

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
Norman Jewison

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
Sigourney Weaver

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
Elton John

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. Somerset Maugham

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.
Shelby Foote

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Francis Quarles

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
Francis Quarles

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

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
Daniel Boone

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

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
David Herbert Lawrence

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.