„The ancestor of every action is a thought.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„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