action Quotes

You can't just let nature run wild.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

To love is to act.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.