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Action quotes
Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet toward men are little better
than good dreams except they be put in action.
All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart,
as landscapes do their variety from light.
The firefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind;
when we rest we darken.
A right act strikes a chord that extends through the whole
universe, touches all moral intelligence, visits every world, vibrates
along its whole extent, and conveys its vibrations to the very bosom of
God!
Think that day lost whose slow descending sun views from thy hand
no noble action done.
Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are
incompatible.
What man knows should find expression in what he
does.—The chief value of superior knowledge is that it leads to a
performing manhood.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up
and guarded for the doer's need.
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,
but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the
noblest.
Nothing ever happens but once in this world. What I do now I do
once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn
meaning.
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate
in eternity.
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.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with
graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
without action.
The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.
Every noble activity makes room for itself.
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self,
nor for brooding over emotions of piety: actions and actions only
determine the worth.
Actions are ours; their consequences belong to heaven.
Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not
action; not a faculty of body, mind, or soul, whose law of improvement
is not energy.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more
leisure we have.
We must be doing something to be happy.—Action is no less
necessary to us than thought.
Mark this well, ye proud men of action! ye are, after all,
nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an
actual and active work.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for
all eternity.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Activity is God's medicine; the highest genius is willingness and
ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a
doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.
Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the
good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the
apostles, but a great deal about their acts.
Life though a short, is a working day.—Activity may lead to evil;
but inactivity cannot be led to good.
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring
danger, is common enough. But it is the part of a good man to do great
and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the
divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come
with thanksgiving to God for its success.
Only actions give to life its strength, as only moderation gives
it its charm.
A holy act strengthens the inward holiness. It is a seed of life
growing into more life.
Great actions, the lustre of which dazzles us, are represented by
politicians as the effects of deep design; whereas they are commonly
the effects of caprice and passion. Thus the war between Augustus and
Antony, supposed to be owing to their ambition to give a master to the
world, arose probably from jealousy.
Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely, people do what is
right, in time they come to like doing it.
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life—if
you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to
those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less
incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty: for your active
exertions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the
Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and
others.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.—Suit the action to the
word and the word to the action.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook unless the
deed go with it.
Action is eloquence; the eyes of the ignorant are
more learned than their ears.
It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the
truth if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
In all exigencies or miseries, lamentation becomes fools, and
action wise folk.
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
To will and not to do when there is opportunity, is in reality
not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is
possible, is in reality not to love it.
The actions of men are like the index of a book: they point out
what is most remarkable in them.
Happiness is in action, and every power is intended for action;
human happiness, therefore, can only be complete as all the powers have
their full and legitimate play.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the
biography of souls.
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor,
like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
Nothing, says Goethe, is so terrible as activity
without insight.—Look before you leap is a maxim for the world.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action
is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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