Quotes About Action

el amable arte de actuar solapadamente.

boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

There was even a scrap of poetry he treasured which stated that a moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.

there's been more drinking than thinking, and more wooing than doing

Tenía unas páginas de poesía, que guardaba con indecible cariño, donde se podía leer que lo que una mano había hecho nunca podía deshacerlo.

La gratitud es mejor y más eficaz cuando no se evapora en frases vacías.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

Cathy le dijo que la tarea más importante en la vida era limpiar los propios actos, comprometerse totalmente con la realidad, poner toda la energía en el presente y hacerlo ahora, inmediatamente.

Se había alejado de la acción y había acabado encerrado en su mundo académico, lejos de la dura realidad de los pobres en América Latina.

Cathy told her that the most important thing in life was to clean up one's own mess, commit oneself a hundred percent to reality, place all one's energy in the present moment, and to do so right now, immediately.

Estamos angustiadas por la situación de la humanidad y del planeta. Ahora es cuestión de ponernos de acuerdo para darle un remezón formidable al mundo.

No creía en la oración como método eficaz para resolver problemas de orden práctico.

Lo importante es lo que uno hace en este mundo, no cómo se llega a él

You have a lot to do so stop feeling sorry for yourself, drink some water, and start writing - Clara the Clairvoyant

All you regret in the end are the sins you didn't commit.

L'importante è quel che si fa al mondo, e non come ci si arriva.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

There are wonderful things happening all around the world. From Nova Scotia to Kerala, Bristol to Melbourne, and even in the Philippines, zero waste is on the agenda. I think what's particularly inspiring is when communities don't wait to be told what to do but just go ahead and do it.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

We need to go to net zero carbon really quickly. And we're also asking for a people's assembly so people can decide how the change happens. We'll know when governments are doing different things, it could feel like a war, a beautiful war.

I know what the bottom is like. I know what it's like to have zero. You can always build up. But it starts by changing your mind and taking action.