Quotes about Action

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.

May you always do what you are afraid to do.

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.