action

(Attachement to the fruits of action) binds a person to continual rebirth.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice (of religious ritual). Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results (of one's actions), because there follows immediate peace.

. . . Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Never confuse motion with action.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one - then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and canceling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.