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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
-Dante Alighieri
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
-Dante Alighieri
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The secret of getting things done is to act!
-Benjamin O. David
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
-John Dewey
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
-John Dewey
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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
-Dhammapada
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
-Joe Dimaggio
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
-Peter Drucker
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
-Will Durant
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
-Wayne Dyer
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
-Wayne Dyer
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People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
-Meister Eckhart
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What you are will show in what you do.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
-Edward Edwards
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
-Albert Einstein
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
-Albert Einstein
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
-Albert Einstein
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
-Albert Einstein
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
-Albert Einstein
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
-George Eliot
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-George Eliot
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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
-Sir John Eliot
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The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about Action(s)
