"But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow"

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage"

"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart"

"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue"

"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual"