We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
Action Quotes
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are usually the result of chance and not of design.
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffing of the vertebrae which causes them to be loyal, to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing – “carry a message to Garcia.”
Act well at the moment, and you performed a good action for all eternity.
Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.
He is incapable of a truly good action that finds not a pleasure in contemplating the actions of others.
Each person has his own safe place – running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources.
No matter how full a reservoir of “maxims” one may possess, and no matter how good one’s “sentiments” may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to “act”, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
