Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

Action is a highroad to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

“Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.” 

“We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.” 

“Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.” 

“There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.” –

“The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.” 

Action is the most important key to any success.

If I want a better-than-average career, I can’t simply ‘go with the flow’ and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If they would just do something most people would find that they get some version of the outcome they’re looking for. That’s been my secret. Stop wishing and start doing.

Indiscriminate action is a form of laziness.

“I will act as if what i do makes a difference.” 

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.” 

“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.” 

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” 

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.” 

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.” 

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Thought is the seed of action.