Famous Quotes about Action (437 Quotations)

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

We will not know unless we begin.

Well begun is half done.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations… is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.