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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

There's action only if there is danger.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.