From science comes foresight, from foresight action.
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Action creates more fortunes than prudence.
There is no real action without will.
Never confuse movement with action.
No contingency anywhere in the universe; no indifference; no liberty. While we act, we are, at the same time, acted upon.
There is only one proof of ability: doing it.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
In conversation one ought to follow closely what is being said; in the field of impulse to follow what is happening; in the latter case to see immediately what is the object of reference, in the former to mark closely the meaning expressed.
As soon as an individual takes an action, whatever that action may be, it begins to escape from his intentions.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The greatest skill in any deed consists in the sure mastery with which it is executed.
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Thus his words have respect to his actions, and his actions have respect to his words; is it not just an entire sincerity which marks the superior man?
What happens when one of our actions ceases to be spontaneous and becomes automatic ? Consciousness departs from it.
I cannot live, experience, think, value, and act in any world which is not in some sense in me, and derives its meaning and truth from me.
Not to extinguish our free-will, I hold it to be true that fortune is the arbiter of one half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Every action is an encroachment on the future.
By your actions, you give me reason to believe you.
Action is decision, a choice, but it is also a wager.
Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
One does not exist without doing something,
All human acts involve more chance than decision.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
