Famous Action Quotes Part – 26

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The firefly only shines when on the wing; so is it with the mind; when once we rest, we darken.

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The first step binds one to the second.

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The food of hope is meditative action.

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The food one, after every action, closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page Now if my act be good, as I believe, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours.

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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

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The greatest joy I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found by accident. Charles Lamb quotes

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

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The greatest step is out the door.

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The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

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The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

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The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

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The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.

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The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.- Zig Ziglar

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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him. Plutarch quotes

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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.

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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.


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