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| A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. |
| Ayn Rand |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. |
| Aristotle |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. |
| Aristotle |
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