A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Action Quotes
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk, we must act big.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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.
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
Action… stimulates hope.
A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active. Xerxes had no lack of food or raiment or wives […]
