Quotes About Action

Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him, indeed they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

The only cure for grief is action.

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Happiness is not something you get, but something you do.

Happiness is action.

I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.

Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

Make the world better.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when?

Every man is the son of his own works.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print; the main thing is still to make history, not to write it.

Most people in action are not worth very much; and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.