Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
Action Quotes
Never confuse motion with action.
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb.
Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
I seem to be a verb.
The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Besides why should we be cowed by the name of Action? “Tis a trick of the senses,” – no more. We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought. To think is to act.
