Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
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Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Oscar Wilde
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras
Reading is no substitute for action.
Colleen Wainwright
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley
A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it.
John Galsworthy
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Edward Koch
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've always wanted to be an action figure.
Jake Lloyd
I do not know if they plan to take action, or if they can take action, but it is there.
Tom Hernandez
We are looking into the matter. We will take appropriate action.
Barbara Helfferich
No cause of action arises from a bare promise.
Legal Maxim
There are some cases that also resulted in a corrective action taking place.
Mauro Tucci
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney
Successful action tends to become an end in itself.
Eric Hoffer
We're not going to do live action like everyone else. That's not our way.
Michael Ouweleen
I will return to action as soon as they let me, ... I think everything will work out.
Kostas Kenteris
She clearly did not know her action was wrong and that's unfortunate. We will try this again.
David Haynes
We feel like the action is unfair.
Tim Hawkins
Once you get into year three you get into corrective action.
Gordon Jackson
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
William Carlos Williams
Back in goal, I don't get a lot of action, but the action I do get is tough.
Krista Coleman
Action, Ability and Awareness (in that order) the 3 keys to success.
Joshua Estrin
Without this action we would reach the debt limit today.
Brookly Mclaughlin
A lot of kids like to read about action.
Maile Davis
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
Arnold Toynbee
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought too much to stoop to action.
Adam De L'Isle
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Edward Abbey
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter F. Drucker
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
We were not aware of any court action that was taken. This was taken independently of that.
Christine Karbowiak
Matters were drifting. There was a need to take action.
Norman Baker
There will probably be action in the Statehouse on the handler fee this year.
Andrea Cohen
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
Mack R. Douglas
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers
The Justice Department undertook this action on its own, which is the way it should be.
Trent Duffy
This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action.
Scott Allen
Action makes more fortune than caution.
Vauvenargues, Marquis De
This can create a Balkanization in class-action cases.
Michael Hyman
We're looking at evolution in action.
Robert Waterston
A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
George Clemenceau
Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
Luigi Pirandello
We are not satisfied with the action that has been taken to date by them.
Bill Martin
We are considering a racketeering action.
Perry Sanders
If I had to vote now for immediate action against Iraq, I'd vote no.
Larry Craig
They were ready for action.
Mark Mershon
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes
The wise sees knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
Bhagavad Gita
We're still investigating to see what's the most appropriate action.
Lucille Baur
We are very disappointed by this unilateral action by the Venezuelan government.
Gina Laughlin
That is certainly a serious action that we have to look at.
Victoria Gray
There is great need for action, the pressure from the IOC is enormous.
Heinz Jungwirth
We cannot achieve all of this without finances, prayer and action.
Pastor Joshua Sarmiento
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Francis Hutcheson
If they are violating the law and not complying with the law we will certainly take action.
David Rivera
We are seeing no action from our government, no action. We want to make sure that in this age, in 2006, no one is above the law.
Gabriel Pendas
Management has to be where the action is.
Dieter Zetsche
The new Rathbone will offer more food, action stir-fry and much more.
Sue Flederbach
I say fear must be followed by hope. Hope you do something about it. It's a call to action.
Elie Wiesel
Barton is in it for the love of the game. He loves the action.
Julian Robertson
It's a holding action. We're hoping it will buy seven years.
Reginald O. Knowles
I was thrilled with the outcome. I never thought we would have this much action today.
Cindy Miller
The proposed mechanism of action of ginseng is unclear.
Ronald Turner
We want to have the board where the action is.
Dieter Zetsche
To take that type of action, we have got to have good reason.
Kristi Clemens
Emotion without action is irrelevant.
Jody Williams
Through a long and costly legal action.
James Barr
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law.
Immanuel Kant
We are seeing some action. People understand we are serious.
Margaret Doucet
When they said that they've put everything into action, we lay flat and began to wait.
Gennady Bolonin
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Jerry Brown
It was not by chance. It was a deliberate action against Georgia.
Nino Burdzhanadze
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
But maybe the action on Derek's pitches trumps that.
Jim Colborn
There is a pressing need for the court to take action.
Charan Pakdithanakul
I got real close to the action.
Tammy Lavalla
It's been a few weeks since we've had any action so that's what we're waiting on.
Jim Mccafferty
I like TV ? I don't love TV. I would rather be the action, not reporting the action.
Paul Azinger
We're evaluating options including legal action.
Craig Parsons
It's a very serious issue, and we took action immediately.
Jacqueline Sharkey
Good managers have a bias for action.
Thomas J. Peters
Must understand we take his lack of action seriously.
Bashar Assad
He had a real social conscience that he translated into action.
Herbert Steiner
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calisher
The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert Blair
They just want to have the action.
Bruce Shelley
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. Trevelyan
We have found no reason for disciplinary action.
Jill Wiggins
It's good to be associated with this kind of action, this kind of heroism.
John Douglass
Nothing has been let go. There is action that will be taken.
Alfred Mutua
In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
Jean claude Van Damme
When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action.
Richard Savage
All men of action are dreamers.
James Gibbons Huneker
I suspect there are going to be a lot of class-action lawsuits.
Valerie Caproni
He had the most beautiful action of any horse we have had. I'm in heaven.
Shari Eisaman
I very much regret this action, which might have serious consequences.
Tom Butler
That's not the action of someone who snapped.
Sandra Grisham
As a team, everyone saw action.
Kent Anderson
The conference didn't have to take any action of any kind.
Mike Slive
They not only have the money they make in salary but a piece of the action.
Skip Musgraves
This is a call to action.
Brook Byers
If we see it happen, we take enforcement action.
Paul Perez
I picked the disciplinary action.
Tony Stanfield
But in action, one defies one's character.
Daniel Bell
Dreams grow holy put in action.
Adelaide Anne Procter
Their fast action prevented a horrible situation.
Hannah Watson
It took a lawsuit before there was any action.
Peter Steinbrueck
There's no action at all in retail.
Dennis Campbell
It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the action) was.
Adrian Anderson
There's action only if there is danger.
Howard Hawks
This situation demands immediate and forceful action.
Lewis Campbell
You never know which prop is going to attract the most action.
Jay Kornegay
There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
Harry Bridges
This baby has seen some action. I'll go and see if I can find out about that action and get back to you.
Tukufu Zuberi
We really can't take any action against them.
James Verpoten
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Karl von Clausewitz
His arm action is really quick and loose and fluid. He's a very limber kid.
Oneri Fleita
It's the highlight of their work. And they get to see conservation in action.
Kathleen Wagner
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking.
John Burroughs
I'll believe it when I see the program in action.
Welton Jones
We said at the time we were very unhappy with that course of action.
Nick Davies
If we had known all of that, we would have taken action much sooner.
Lauren Roberts
Sometimes it takes dramatic action and then careful study of what was meant by that action.
Stephen Ferguson
The key to this problem is early detection and rapid action.
Philip Tod
Time to react and take action.
Michael Moskow
A lot of the short-term action is dependent on oil prices.
Michael Metz
We got some different kids in there, and it was good to see them get some action.
Andy Grimm
It's nice to see him in action.
John Copeland
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action.
Georges Clemenceau
There may be further action taken by the dean of students.
Greig Denny
We need to take action, simple as that.
Jack Moore
I don't think they should be able to take action on us for what we do outside of school.
Danny Smith
Every day [the assignment] got a little bit more dangerous because they got more guns in action -- they got a little bit more accurate.
Doug Price
If it requires us to take legal action, we will fight this.
Bruce S. Gordon
We'll keep him out of action for a period of about seven to 10 days.
Lonnie Soloff
Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.
Alexander Mackenzie
We had to take action. A look at the table will show that.
Walter Hellmich
It's been a long time, and we believe the time is now for action.
Geri Palast
He has to account for the damage he has done to Poland by his reforms and action.
Andrzej Lepper
I think it's another delaying action.
Donna Newman
This alleged action is repugnant to our common values.
Jason Kamiya
We hope to see action on the ground in all the counties this summer.
Don Carroll
A lot more needs to be done to transfer that interest into action.
Alan Lloyd
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Tony Robbins
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
People need encouragement to take action.
Joe Vitale
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
Jim Sorensen
I don't believe we can get out of town until we take action on this bill.
Larry Mckibben
We must get the talks moving with visible action in the factories.
Joerg Hofmann
Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today.
Henry Agallar
Action, not words, would be the measure of our success or failure.
Charles Murigande
Portman says all the right things, but I have to admit that so far I don't see the action.
Roger Schagrin
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
Robert S. McNamara
He feels like he's going to miss all the action.
Ladrika Gross
When we learn about things, we take an action.
Larry Pozner
My patience ran out with him. There is a lot of talk and no action.
Tom Reeves
We can't wait until it occurs before taking action.
Sabas Pretelt
I was surprised. But then it was, 'OK, let's see how I fit in.' I knew who was here. I have to show what I can do and get a piece of the action.
Mike Williams
As soon as we found out, we took immediate action.
Brian Hague
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