Quotes About Action

When trouble is sensed well in advance it can easily be remedied; if you wait for it to show itself any medicine will be too late because the disease will have become incurable. As the doctors say of a wasting disease, to start with it is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose;after a time, unless it has been diagnosed and treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. So it is in politics.

What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and such share of glory as belongs to us, God will not do everything himself.

For men do harm either out of fear or out of hatred.

Because, if one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.

for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil

Por ello las acciones que en un caso pueden poner diques a la fortuna y resultar virtuosas, en el otro pueden fracasar; por ello también el par virtud/fortuna tiene una acepción unipersonal e individual en el primer caso (el recogido en El príncipe) y otra colectiva y republicana en el segundo (el de los Discursos).

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

Dios no quiere hacerlo todo, para no privarnos de nuestro libre albedrío ni quitarnos una parte de la obra que en nuestro bien redundará.

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide. A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water. "What are you doing, son?" the man asks. "You see how many starfish there are? You'll never make a difference." The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. "It sure made a difference to that one," he said.

From Plato: "The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Once we have learned how to see the world, we have taken only one of the required steps. The point is to change it.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made.

It's never too late to do the right thing.

I know I'm not going to be able to change the world, but I think it's important to try to make a difference

Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.' Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. did Confucius really say that? Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that?

When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.

Don't let fear govern your decision.

In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives