Effective action is always unjust.
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.