Quotes About Action

We think the future lies ahead, but its seed is contained in the present. There is no sharp break between the two: the lie we tell today can send us sprawling a year from now; the way we treat our infant determines the way he treats us when he reaches adolescence.

As Bernard Shaw said, "He who can, does: he who cannot, teaches." But, as Sydney J. Harris put it, "Let's revise Shaw's foolish saying to 'He who can, does; he who understands, teaches.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little; do something.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Knowing is the key to caring, and with caring there is hope that people will be motivated to take positive actions. They might not care even if they know, but they can't care if they are unaware.

Being trapped by fear is a form of delusion. Either I can do something or I can't. If I truly can't ... I don't do it. If I truly can, and it wold be a wholesome thing to do, I push myself [p. 39].

He did not confuse compassion with passivity.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something

We are going to change the world from this point onward, one way or another. Either from what we do, or what we fail to do.

For me, the 'ask' is similar to squeezing or crumbling pastry, but in the next nano-second I am releasing the crumbs back

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.

I have done it again.

There is pleasure in watching the sophistries of mankind, his decisions made and unmade like the swirl of a mill-race, causation sweeping him forward from act to act while his reason dances on the surface of action like a pattern of foam.

If I'm not for myself, who will be for me? And if not now, when? But if I'm only for myself, who am I?

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it possible.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.

We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when weíre not in the mood to act

How do rich people think and act?

They know and do not know, what it is to act or suffer. They know and do not know, that acting is suffering.