Action Quotes

"Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance."

"One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue."

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."

"I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer."

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

"Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."

"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."

"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."

"Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort."

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest."