Quotes About Action

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

I had rather enjoy my own mind than the fortune of another man. What is the poor pride arising from a magnificent house, a numerous equipage, a splendid table, and from all the other advantages or appearances of fortune, compared to the warm, solid content, the swelling satisfaction, the thrilling transports, and the exulting triumphs, which a good mind enjoys, in the contemplation of a generous, virtuous, noble, benevolent action?

a man will put forth greater efforts to save himself from ruin than he will merely to improve his position.

No man burns down his own house on the theory that the need to rebuild it will stimulate his energies. After

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

Keep making the movements of life.

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts.

Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one would have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.

I find that I really hang back; but I must take my horrid plunge.

Ah, things are always different from what they might be," said the old man. "If you wait for them to change you'll never do anything.

much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

We create our fate everyday

We create our fate every day that we live.

We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh...

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.