Action Quotes

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Better do nothing than do ill.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

Choose actions over excuses.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.