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| We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. | | Aristotle | |
| We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea | | Aristotle | |
| We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules | | Samuel Johnson | |
| We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. | | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
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| What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! | | William Shakespeare | |
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| What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. | | Aristotle | |
| Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions | | Joseph Addison | |
| When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep | | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. | | Confucius | |
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| When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift | | Maya Angelou | |
| Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? | | Arthur Miller | |
