Quotes About Action

Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family?

Si uno está muerto, no puede hacer nada para ser feliz.

We can pray over the cholera victim, or we can give her 500 milligrams of tetracycline every 12 hours.

Due to our own actions or inactions, and the misuse of our technology, we live at an extraordinary moment, for the Earth at least - the first time that a species has become able to wipe itself out. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars.

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

All of these lived and died upon the earth and nothing was done about it.

There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

You don't go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

Take it easy man, but take it.

Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.

its key components are action and practice, which in turn prompt success, which refuels motivation. Figure

Sometimes change is necessary. Sometimes we recognize the need for it, but we don't know how to achieve it. We misread its nature. We think it is beyond us, failing to recognize that our inability to act is a problem of our own making. Change is the solution we require, but it is not a goal that is easily reached. Identifying and disposing of what is troubling to us requires caution and understanding.

If you get the urge, then write about it.

But regrets don't help. We have to forget about what we couldn't do and concentrate on what we can.

It is not given to us already cast. It is given as a set of possibilities, and we must choose which of these we would make happen and then try to see it done.

Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal.

son los actos y no las palabras los que marcan la diferencia.

It is one thing to say you will do anything for your friend, but another entirely to actually do what is needed.

We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. —HERBERT MCCABE, OP

Characters may lend the action a certain colouring, but it is what happens that comes first. To overlook this while watching a tragedy would be like treating a football game simply as the acts of a set of solitary individuals, or as chance for each of them to display 'personality'. The fact that some players behave as though this is precisely what football games are about should not distract us from this point.

Morality has precious little to do with feeling in any case. The fact that you feel a surge of nausea at the sight of someone with half their head shot away is neither here nor there as long as you try to help them.

Quem quiser saber aquilo que homens e mulheres creem precisa dar uma olhada no que eles fazem, não no que dizem