Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Action Quotes
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Action expresses priorities.
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Vigor is contagious; and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
The most decisive actions of our life – I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future – are, more often than not, unconsidered.
