Quotes about Action
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
- Aristotle
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
- Heinrich Heine
Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry
- James Allen
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.
- Ronald Reagan
A man is the origin of his action.
- Aristotle
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
- Ray Comfort
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
- John Owen