No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

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

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Act only on that maxim whereby you can atthe same time will that it should become a universal law.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.