Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb.
Action Quotes
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.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Besides why should we be cowed by the name of Action? “Tis a trick of the senses,” – no more. We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought. To think is to act.
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
