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The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Thomas Huxley
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. -- Thomas Carlyle
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. -- Thomas Carlyle
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. -- Thomas Carlyle
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? -- Arthur Miller
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end. -- John Cusack
I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions. -- Esai Morales
Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation. -- Richard Carmona
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. -- Leonardo da Vinci
In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules. -- Don Yaeger
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions. -- Thomas Brooks
Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war. -- Ban Ki-moon
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action. -- Robert Shea
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. -- John Stuart Mill
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. -- Giorgos Seferis
Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers' had all of this great, giant action, but for all of the clever dialogue, it's the moments. -- Jeffrey Bell
You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling. -- Robert Boswell
Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies. -- Donnie Yen
One of the tricky things about sort of larger, comic-book action movies is that the scale is so big that they have to save the world at the end of every movie, and so at the end of each of the films, either Chicago or New York end up getting obliterated. -- Graham Moore
I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish. -- Action Bronson
Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences. -- Barack Obama
He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best. -- George Chapman
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed. -- Aristotle
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. -- William Shakespeare
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end. -- Vinoba Bhave
I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end. -- Edward Snowden
If you decide to do anything and follow throughwith actions with the same intensity as your decision, you willdefinitely end up with an excellent result. -- Derric Yuh Ndim
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion. -- T. S. Eliot
Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too. -- Theodor Herzl
Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited? -- Ai Weiwei
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end. -- Joseph Addison
She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm. -- Marcia Muller
If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end. -- Martha Wells
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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