Action Quotes

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Herman Melville

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot (Mary Evans) 1819

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

John Andrew Holmes

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Laurence J. Peter

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.r

Robert Collye

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert F. Kennedy

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Fros

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Edison

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.J

ohn Wesley

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Pearl S. Buck

"Do-so" is more important than "say-so."

Pete Seeger

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley
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