Action

Famous quotes containing the word action:

“Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

“A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)

“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)