The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Action Quotes
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.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
There is no such crime as a crime of thought. There are only crimes of action.
