Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.
Action Quotes
We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important is that you do care and you act.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain.
Activity is God’s medicine; the highest genius is willingness and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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 […]
