The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
The more they talk, the less they’ll do.
The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed…
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
People who go about talking of what they are going to do don’t usually do it.
Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans.
On the path of actions, a great heart is the chief recommendation; on that of works, a great head.[Zum Wege der Taten befähigt vorzüglich das große Herz; zu dem der Werke der große Kopf.]
