Quotes About Action

It's tougher to look than to leap.

Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself.

We were past the point of debating the wisdom of this move; it was already done, and our only hope was to get to the other side.

Nigdy nie mia?em zbyt du?o czasu na zastanawianie si?, ale czu?em, ?e moje instynkty by?y s?uszne.

Buy the ticket take the ride.

Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.

Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine.

He who does the task Dictated by duty, Caring nothing For the fruit of the action, He is a yogi. (Bhagavad-Gita, VI:I) Hence

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you o with what happens to you.

You can't consume much of you sit still and read books.

Arrivés à ce point, nous nous trouvons devant une question très troublante. Désirons-nous vraiment agir ? Est-ce que la majorité de la population estime qu'il vaut bien la peine de faire des efforts considérables pour arrêter et si possible renverser la tendance actuelle vers le contrôle totalitaire et intégral ?

If you do something to benefit one person, that is an absolute gain, and its relative insignificance in the wider scheme is irrelevant. Benefit two people without concomitant harm to others - or a village, tribe, city, class, nation, society or civilisation - and the benefits are scalable, arithmetic. There is no excuse beyond fatalistic self-indulgence and sheer laziness for doing nothing.

like when I walk along a pavement in Porteneil and I accidentally scuff one heel on a paving stone. I have to scuff the other foot as well, with as near as possible the same weight, to feel good again.

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action. Olivier frowned. So? Dear boy, I must tell you a secret. What? I do believe it is wrong.

The motto here is that a new door opens every time you push another man out a window.

Never send a man where you can send a bullet.

And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.

I should spend the money quickly, Commander Bond.