action Quotes

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.