Quotes about taking action

What has value in their eyes is never what is done for them; it's what they do for themselves.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.

First, prayer; then, atonement; in the third place, very much 'in the third place', action.

speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Don’t waste your time on penitence or guilt. Solving the problem is better!

“It is hard to do good,” the voice whispered.

“Nonsense,” she muttered. “You only have to do it.”

Are you Earthseed?

Do you believe?

Belief will not save you.

Only actions

Guided and shaped

By belief and knowledge

Will save you.

Belief

Initiates and guides action—

Or it does nothing.

Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.