Quotes About Action

I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

I've only got so much time on this Earth and then that's it. So I better make the most of it.

Someone can have a heart attack at any age. That person may only have so much time, so if there's a chance to help people in distress we should take it.

awareness changes the situation; any action carried out with awareness is transformed through awareness itself.

If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.

Everybody knows all the movements. General So and So should have done such and such. God knows we all try. We none of us lose battles on purpose. But now on this field what can we do that's undone?

General, you may attack'...He gave no further directions...With that word it was out of his hands. It had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.

unless we do very, very disruptive actions, people do not want to talk to us.

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

hope is not a strategy.

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Churchill quote – "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

Because he knew it was always what you chose to do right now that mattered. And you always had a choice.

But it's because our time is limited that life is so precious, so beautiful. And what matters is what we do in the time we've got.

Don't just stand there with a stupid look on your face – do something useful with a stupid look on your face!

We are not usually philosophical in moments of crisis; most often, there is no time.

Every movement reveals us.

The usefulness of living lies not in duration but in what you make of it. Some have lived long and lived little. See to it while you are still here. Whether you have lived enough depends not on a count of years but on your will.

The danger was not that I would do wrong, but that I would do nothing

Bir ?ey yapmad?m ne demek? Ya?ad?n?z ya! Bu sizin yaln?z ba?l?ca i?iniz de?il, en parlak, en ?erefli i?inizdir.

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

the property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.