Quotes About Action

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Were we to characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it… above all others, the Mechanical Age…. The same habit regulates not our modes of action alone, but our modes of thought and feeling. Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand.

So here hath been dawningAnother blue Day:Think wilt thou let itSlip useless away.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Be not the slave of Words.

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

If something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody

Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.

Does it ever give thee pause, that men used to have a soul- not by hearsay along, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world then... but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls... we shall have to go in search of them again, or worse in all ways shall befall us.

It is an everlasting duty, valid in our day as in that, the duty of being brave. Valor is still value. The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward, till he have got Fear under his feet.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

Because of barriers of knowledge, barriers of state, and barriers of action, seeing your own buddha nature is like seeing color at night.

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

Protest is good; involvement is better; doing both is the best.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.