Action Quotes

Live an active life among people who are doing worth-while things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. (“Dilbert”)

Patience is the mother of will.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don’t want to do them.

Nothing’s impossible for those who don’t have to do it.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

All men of action are dreamers.

By annihilting desires you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Our constitution… favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy… Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike any other nation (we regard) him […]