Quotes About Action

I almost die a lot. Superheroes do.

I don't reply. Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

stay balanced and beware: don't let the team succumb to analysis paralysis

Should any of us be desperate enough to find our own solution and dare to take action, we would have been pronounced to be the lowest of all disobedient wives

There was no best about any of this. There was only what they could do at any given moment.

that aversives stop behavior, they don't start it; and

Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list.

To serve, Martin Luther King Jr. said, all you need is a soul generated by love. We are "God-in-action" through our smiles, our willing hands, our busy feet, our gentle voices, and all the other ways we find to show our love.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Sitting back and not getting involved while people get killed in an endless cycle of wars doesn't count as not having blood on your hands.

Courage isn't about the absence of fear. Courage is doing the one thing you think you cannot do.

Being brave is feeling frightened and still doing what needs to be done.

She had always scorned Hamlet, just a little. Five acts of vacillation, scene after scene of contemplation instead of action, putting on

Choosing is hard, but not choosing is, in my view, much more debilitating. Sitting in limbo – not fully in your marriage and not out of it, looking at piles of pictures sitting on the floor rather than displaying them on a wall, letting time pass in a job you don't love but are reluctant to leave – and the non-choices are what will eat away at you.

Mum Paula says that she has two very different boys. 'I could put it like this: Rami stands for reason and Kimi for action. When it's Kimi, if there's the smallest gap, he'll slip past. Rami is more of a gentleman, so that if someone catches up with him, he might think, Go on, pass. If Kimi sees the tiniest chink, he'll exploit it.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

We must all continuously recapture ourselves from indecision.

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a stong man has them afterwards.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Men make their own history

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ These words are also inscribed upon his grave ]