Quotes About Action

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exist only as an idea

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, and what good will they do you if you do not act upon them

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?

There is no moral difference between ordering an execution, and carrying it out.

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Yea, if a man have all knowledge, he may yet be nothing, and so, consequently, be no child of God. When Christ said, "Do you know all these things?" and the disciples had answered yes, he added, "Blessed are ye if ye do them." He doth not lay the blessing in the knowing of them, but in the doing of them: "He that knoweth his Master's will, and doeth not." A man may know like an angel, and yet be no Christian.

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!

Away, and bring us napkins!

Wild and cruel case, youth ever thinks; but mistakenly; for Experience well knows, that action, though it seems an aggravation of woe, is really an alleviative; though permanently to alleviate pain, we must first dart some added pangs.

when we follow our passions, we also risk escalating our emotional commitment to a new course of action before we have evidence that it will be doable.

Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you'll be good.

Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you'll be good.3

Success for the most part attends those who act boldly, not those who weigh everything, and are slack to venture.

El alba pone al hombre en camino, y lo pone también a trabajar.

One who delays his work is always wrestling with ruin.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Ha de saberse que si se cede a una tentación, muy luego se presenta como el rayo la oportunidad de incurrir en ella.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

If a man is cruel by nature, cruel in action, the mortal world will call down curses on his head while he is alive, and all will mock his memory after death. But then if a man is kind by nature, kind in action, his guests will carry his fame across the earth and people all will praise him from the heart.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Come— the proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.