Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Action Quotes
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
If you sit down at set of sun, And count the acts that you have done, And counting, Find one self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard – One glance most kind, That fell like sunshine where it went, Then you may count that day well spent. But if, through […]
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
The young feel tired at the end of an action. The old at the beginning.
Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
