Quotes About Action

Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends...

A great statesman thinks several times, and acts; a young lady acts, and thinks several times.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Decisive action is seen by appreciative minds to be frequently objectless, and sometimes fatal; but decision, however suicidal, has more charm for a woman than the most unequivocal Fabian success.

Let us toss as men do

With the impulse of a soul who could feel for kindred sufferers as much as for herself, Tess's first thought was to put the still living birds out of their torture, and to this end with her own hands she broke the necks of as many as she could

Ready when you are Sergeant Pempbry.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Primum vivere deinde philosophari - First one must live, then one may philosophize.

Where shall I turn, what shall I do?' are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.

Where shall I turn, what shall I do? are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

NEVER PUT OFF FOR TOMORROW, WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY

It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read.

If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

quien salva la vida de un hombre, salva al mundo entero.

One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any useful nourishment. One could go further and say that just as undigested food does not strengthen a man, time spent in waiting does not age him.

Bei einem Volk von der Art des unsrigen", trug ich vor, "ist das Seelische immer das Primäre und eigentlich Motivierende; die politische Aktion ist zweiter Ordnung, Reflex, Ausdruck, Instrument.

Und das tat er oder glaubte es zun tun, oder glaubte es auch selber nicht recht, oder, noch bedenklicher, es fing an, ihm gleichgültig zu werden, ob er es tat oder nicht.

Bien écrire, c'est déjà presque bien penser, et il n'y a pas loin de là jusqu'à bien agir.