Action Quotes
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Benjamin Jowett
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
Charlotte Whitton
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen C. Barrett
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above.
Julia Fletcher Carney 1823
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept,/ Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No on should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.
Bhagavad-Gita
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
