The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
Action Quotes
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 […]
Men’s actions are many-rooted like trees, and like trees many-branched.
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb.
Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
I seem to be a verb.
The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.
