"To live is not breathing it is action."

"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."

"Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows."

"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

"Doubt can only be removed by action."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

"How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee."

"When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self."

"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."

"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

"Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves."

"Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Action makes more fortune than caution"

"While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions."

"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."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities."

"We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will remain less than 10 -- and a number of wounded,"

"The weather was bad. We don't know of any enemy action. The investigation continues,"

"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex."