Action Quotes

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.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

If you sit down at set of sun, And count the acts that you have done, And counting, Find one self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard – One glance most kind, That fell like sunshine where it went, Then you may count that day well spent. But if, through […]