We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Action Quotes
Vigor is contagious; and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
The most decisive actions of our life – I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future – are, more often than not, unconsidered.
All men judge the acts of others by what they would have done themselves.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
To act is easy; to think is hard.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflections? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
