Action Quotes

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Justice is truth in action. — Benjamin Disraeli
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. — John Dryden
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of… — William James
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. — Joel A. Barker
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,… — George W. Bush
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. — William Manchester
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. — Andrew Jackson
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he… — Charles Edward Merriam
From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no… — Milla Jovovich
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. — Francis Hutcheson
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the… — George Allen
Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action. — Alexander Mackenzie
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. — Robert Blair
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism… — William Blum
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. — Francis Jeffrey
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and… — Suzanne Fields
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the… — John Acton

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