Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
- Cervantes

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Well done is better than well said.
- Franklin, Benjamin

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Aristotle

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
- Gita, Bhagavad

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.
- Gita, Bhagavad

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
- Gurdjieff

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
- Nagarjuna

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
- Richter, Jean Paul

He who considers too much will perform little.
- Schiller, Johann Von

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- Shakespeare, William

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis