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| Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Successful action tends to become an end in itself | | Eric Hoffer | |
| Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. | | William Shakespeare | |
| That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
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| The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. | | Colin Powell | |
| The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest | | Thomas Carlyle | |
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| The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. | | Thomas Paine | |
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| The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant | | Epictetus | |
| The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, | | Marshall McLuhan | |
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| The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action | | Oscar Wilde | |
| The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, “Where is he at?” By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing—“Carry a message to Garcia!” | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action | | Joseph Addison | |
| The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. | | Confucius | |
