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
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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