We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Action Quotes
Unfortunately, sometimes people don’t hear you until you scream.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Activity energizes; inertia and apathy enervate.
Dreams grow holy put in action.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
A human act once set in motion flows on for ever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. (Julius Caesar)
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is not purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do […]
