Action Quotes

But the character of every act depends on the circumstances in which it is done.

The man whose first question, after what he considers to be a right course of action has presented itself, is “What will people say?” is not the man to do anything at all.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Life is action!

Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

The sage manages affairs without action and spreads doctrines without words… By acting without action, all things will be in order.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.