Home » Quote » Ralph Waldo Emerson » „The ancestor of every action is a thought.“ „The ancestor of every action is a thought.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson Related quotes „Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?“ — Haruki Murakami „Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.“ — Thich Nhat Hanh „Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson „Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.“ — Virginia Woolf „Balance your thoughts with action.“ — Bruce Lee „Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.“ — Swami Vivekananda „Somewhere among every man's ancestors is a prince or a lord, a priest or a saint, and don't forget it. Wake up!“ — William Saroyan „Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.“ — Platón