Inspirational Quotes on Action

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

"The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often unconsidered actions."

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."

"there are no gains without pains"

"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose."

"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless."

"Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."

"The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself."

"I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it."