Action Is a Real Thing

Action is a real thing. What counts is a man's total behavior, and not his talk about planned but not realized acts. Action must be clearly distinguished from the application of labor. He who endures what he could change acts no less than he who interferes in order to attain another result. The vigorous man, industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come.