Quotes About Action

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

Fields can lie fallow, but we can't; we have less time.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Let us make hay while the sun shines.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

Wenn die Hunde bellen, dann weil wir galoppieren.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Los vagos son ellos, los que dicen que trabajan y no hacen sino aturdirse y ahogar el pensamiento".

L'amore, con il solo amare, e senza operare null'altro, compie un'eroica fatica.

Habrían creído a sus obras y no a sus palabras, porque las palabras no sirven para apoyar las obras, sino que las obras se bastan.

La acción libra del mal sentimiento, y es el mal sentimiento el que envenena el alma.