Quotes About Action

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

He'd jolt up in bed every morning, sit quietly for a moment, and you could feel those wheels spinning in his mind as he planned his day. Then he'd hit the floor almost on the run.

Here hath been dawning another blue day: think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?

Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.

We create our fate every day we live.

Who loses a day loses life.

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Seize the hour.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Don't agonize. Organize.