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| There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts. | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob | | Ayn Rand | |
| There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done it better than anyone | | Will Rogers | |
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| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. | | Socrates | |
| Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs | | Lord Byron | |
| Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance. | | François de la Rochefoucauld | |
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| To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. | | Anatole France | |
| To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial | | Mark Twain | |
| To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
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| Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. | | Aristotle | |
| Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. | | Aristotle | |
| Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the | | Winston Churchill | |
