Quotes About Action

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

No good would come of all these fine intentions.

This talk of love means very little. Love is not a feeling. It can be tested. Love is action, it is silence. It's not the emotional straining and scheming for possession that you used to think it was.

I can decide what to say but not what the words mean which I have said. I can decide what to do but I am not master of the significance of my act.

I had been confronted (at last) with a sizeable ordeal labelled with my name. This was not something to be wasted.

Perché adesso so che fare le cose non ti ferisce:resti ferito se le eviti.

I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them

Cunts that try and psychoanalyse the fucked-up miss the crucial point: sometimes ye jist dae it cause it's thaire n that's wey ye are.

you were better making history than studying it.

When you hurt some cunt […] it's you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you've done it for fuck all, it means nothing

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Kita harus bertindak sesuai dengan nalar kita, dan selanjutnya biarkan Tuhan yang menentukan nilai akhirnya, Kalau kau yakin pada saat ini ingin menjadi pelayan Sang Pencipta kita dengan cara tertentu, maka keyakinan itulah satu-satunya pembimbing yang kau miliki menuju masa depan. Jangan takut untuk meyakini hal ini.

You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the best dictates of our reason, and then leave God to judge its ultimate value.

Nikada ne možete biti sigurni u nešto sve vreme. Možete imati samo odvažnosti i snage da u?inite ono što mislite da je pravo. Možda ?e se to kasnije pokazati kao neta?no, ali vi ste ga bar u?inili, a to je ono što je važno.

You are the only one responsible for your own wants.

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Meaning well is a poor defense

Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds.

That is, he made boasts. But boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted

a moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.

The action of social revolution and the reaction of guarding against such revolution or combating it once it has begun are the causes of a great deal of the human misery with which history is permeated.

You see, I have cowardly feelings, but I try not to make cowardly decisions.

me gustaría recordarle que existe una diferencia entre la osadía y la ceguera. La acción decisiva está indicada cuando se conoce al enemigo y se pueden calcular aproximadamente los riesgos; pero moverse contra un potencial desconocido ya supone una osadía de por sí. Sería lo mismo que preguntar por qué un hombre salta con éxito en una carrera de obstáculos durante el día y tropieza con los muebles de su habitación por la noche.