Action Quotes

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.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

Never confuse motion with action.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb.