Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

— Herbert Hoover

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

— Max Carver

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

— Samuel Smiles

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

— Karl Jaspers

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Everyone designs who devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

— Herbert Simon

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

— Jules Renard

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

First, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country eurozone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.

— George Papandreou