Action Quotes

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. -William J.H. Boetcker 

 

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that only in our easy, simple spontaneous action are we strong, and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators. -William Feather 

 

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. -Benjamin Franklin

 

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. -Claude-Adrien Helvetius 

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -Elbert Hubbard 

 

Action and feeling go together and by regulating the action which is under the more direct control of the will, we can regulate the feeling, which is not. -William James 

 

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. -Samuel Johnson

 

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time. -J.S. Knox 

 

We like to think it is enough if we keep our own lives straight. Quite plainly it is not. If we talk cynically or encourage a lowering of standards, even though we still control our own actions, we become responsible for the failure of those who, weakened by our influence, fail to stand upright. -George P.T. Sargent 

 

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -Alfred North Whitehead

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