Quotes about Action

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.