Quotes About Action

I just don't want you to look back on your life twenty years from now, Maggie, and see all the things you could have done," Mom says, blowing her nose again. "I think I'll look back and see all the things I did do, Mom," I say, a little starch creeping into my voice. "I'll see that I fed people and welcomed them, I helped them and kept them company... those are good things, Mom.

They might have chosen to stay home in safety, but the true heroic deed was that they did not, even knowing the danger they faced.

If you start rapping, I promise you I'll throw myself off this platform.

Vianne didn't hesitate. She knew now that no one could be neutral—not anymore—and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. She reached for the toddler, took him in her arms.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.

We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life.

we] have a mighty dislike of all intentional effort and are addicted to absolute laziness until circumstances prod [us] into action.

The psyche cannot be totally different from matter, otherwise how could it move matter? Matter cannot be alien to the psyche, otherwise how would it produce the psyche? Psyche and matter exist in one and the same world and each partakes of the other, otherwise any reciprocal action would be impossible. If research on both would go far enough, we would come to a final agreement between physical and psychological concepts.

Every age has had its darkness and its dangers. The task of the Christian is not to whine about the moment in which he or she lives but to understand its problems and respond appropriately to them.

It was found in practice that when the examinations were conducted in a spirit which led up to conclusions which were bits of advice, often no action was taken; whereas by leaving it to spontaneity in the individual and to his own sense of responsibility, action is taken in the overwhelming majority of cases.

The task of the Christian is not to whine about the moment in which he or she lives but to understand its problems and respond appropriately to them.

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.

PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.

Je größerer Art die Maßnahmen werden, um so weniger kann man damit überraschen.

der Handelnde im Kriege die Dinge unaufhörlich anders findet, als er sie erwartet hatte

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end.

From action or inaction each one of us derives a gain or a loss and at the same time one causes a gain or a loss to some one else.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.