Don’t Be Too Timid And Squeamish About Your Actions. All Life Is An Experiment. The More Experiments You Make The Better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I Was Seldom Able To See An Opportunity Until It Had Ceased To Be One.
- Mark Twain
Nothing Will Ever Be Attempted If All Possible Objections Must Be First Overcome.
- Samuel Johnson
Somewhere Deep Down We Know That In The Final Analysis We Do Decide Things And That Even Our Decisions To Let Someone Else Decide Are Really Our Decisions, However Pusillanimous.
- Harvey Cox
All Human Actions Have One Or More Of These Seven Causes: Chance, Nature, Compulsion, Habit, Reason, Passion, And Desire.
- Aristotle
Only Actions Give Life Strength; Only Moderation Gives It A Charm.
- Jean Paul Richter
I’ve Arrived At This Outermost Edge Of My Life By My Own Actions. Where I Am Is Thoroughly Unacceptable. Therefore, I Must Stop Doing What I’ve Been Doing.
- Alice Koller
Happiness Lies Not In The Mere Possession Of Money. It Lies In The Joy Of Achievement, In The Thrill Of Creative Effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You Cannot Have A Proud And Chivalrous Spirit If Your Conduct Is Mean And Paltry; For Whatever A Man’s Actions Are, Such Must Be His Spirit.
- Demosthenes
Delay Is Preferable To Error.
- Thomas Jefferson
Aggressive Fighting For The Right Is The Greatest Sport In The World.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Life Is One Long Process Of Getting Tired.
- Samuel Butler
When A Man Asks Himself What Is Meant By Action He Proves He Is Not A Man Of Action. Action Is A Lack Of Balance. In Order To Act You Must Be Somewhat Insane. A Reasonably Sensible Man Is Satisfied With Thinking.
- Georges Clemenceau
An Event Had Happened, Upon Which It Is Difficult To Speak, And Impossible To Be Silent.
- Edmund Burke
Actions Lie Louder Than Words.
- Carolyn Wells
We Are Face To Face With Our Destiny And We Must Meet It With High And Resolute Courage. For Us Is The Life Of Action, Of Strenuous Performance Of Duty; Let Us Live In The Harness, Striving Mightily; Let Us Rather Run The Risk Of Wearing Out Than Rusting Out.
I Have Long Since Come To Believe That People Never Mean Half Of What They Say, And That It Is Best To Disregard Their Talk And Judge Only Their Actions.
- Dorothy Day
Men Acquire A Particular Quality By Constantly Acting A Particular Way… You Become Just By Performing Just Actions, Temperate By Performing Temperate Actions, Brave By Performing Brave Actions.
In This Theater Of Man’s Life, It Is Reserved Only For God And For Angels To Be Lookers-On.
- Sir Francis Bacon
We Have Too Many High Sounding Words, And Too Few Actions That Correspond With Them.
- Abigail Adams
I Have Always Thought The Actions Of Men The Best Interpreters Of Their Thoughts.
- John Locke
Action Is Character.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Deliberation Is The Function Of The Many; Action Is The Function Of One.
- Charles De Gaulle
We Defend And We Build A Way Of Life, Not For America Alone, But For All Mankind.
The Superior Man Is Modest In His Speech, But Exceeds In His Actions.
- Confucius
Words Without Actions Are The Assassins Of Idealism.
- Herbert Hoover
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