Action Quotes

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, […]

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

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.

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Action expresses priorities.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.