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| A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. | | Ayn Rand | |
| A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. | | Rita Mae Brown | |
| A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it | | George Washington | |
| A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends | | George Washington | |
| A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. | | Confucius | |
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| Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. | | Eric Hoffer | |
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| Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
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| Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. | | William James | |
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| All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. | | Carl Sandburg | |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. | | Aristotle | |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. | | Aristotle | |
