Action Quotes

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of […]

Men’s actions are many-rooted like trees, and like trees many-branched.

We must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary to us than thought.

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.