Quotes About Action

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The world belongs to the energetic.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

Every natural action is graceful.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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

The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.

Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.