Action Quotes

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

"It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid."

"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it."

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"

"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."

"You can do more good by being good than any other way."

"I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart."

"When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs."

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

"What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?"

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."

"I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any."

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

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something."