Quotes About Action

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

When I first went on deck I entered the captain's room adjoining the pilot-house, and threw myself on a sofa. I did not keep that position a moment, but rose to go out on the deck to observe what was going on. I had scarcely left when a musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot.

when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.

Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.

You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is

para no acabar haciendo el necio, prefiero no empezar haciendo el listo.

A szabadság tehát szenvedély, a szabadság akarása viszont cselekvés, és ez a különbség közöttem és a kÅ' között. Én akarhatok.

Öyleyse neden öÄŸrenmek istiyorsunuz? Çünkü bilim, yaln?zca insan?n yapmas? gerekeni ya da yapabileceÄŸini bilmesinden ibaret deÄŸildir; yapabileceÄŸini, ama belki de yapmamas? gerekenin bilinmesini de içerir.

You act, and you know why you act, but you don't know why you know that you know what you do.

EÄŸer doÄŸru anl?yorsam, bir ÅŸey yap?yorsunuz ve niçin yapt???n?z? biliyorsunuz, ama ne yapt???n?z?, niçin bildiÄŸinizi bilmiyorsunuz.

Parten del concepto de que el bien debe realizarse aquí, y no más allá de la tumba. Por lo cual, obran sólo para la conquista de este mundo.

Here, on the one hand, nobody respects silence any more. On the other, it is respected too much. Here, instead of talking or remaining silent, we should act.

Be brave. Be bold. Don't wait for change. Seize your own life and make it.

I am the leader of a party. I have only two years more as President, and I cannot take an action without thinking what will be its effect upon the party's future; otherwise I might throw away my six years' work, and have the humiliation of seeing a successor undo the entire New Deal.

Congress is balking; in fact, they have got to the point where they won't do anything if they think it's what I want.

would be "carried out fairly and fully and forthwith.

The very freedom we are so proud of is their assurance of success; we are made impotent by it, and cannot imagine taking action against those who use their freedom to destroy ours.

They had the keenest realization of danger to the cause of freedom and social justice. They all wanted to do something; but first they had to agree what to do, and apparently they couldn't; they talked and argued until they were exhausted.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

I had seen how deep in nearly every West Indian, high and low, were the prejudices of race; how often these prejudices were rooted in self-contempt; and how much important action they prompted. Everyone spoke of nation and nationalism but no one was willing to surrender the priviledges or even the separateness of his group.

Untouched by imagination or intellect, great actions become mere activity; it

we will not succeed if our actions are based on myths and misinformation.

One of the hardest things we have to do is learn to take responsibility for our own actions. Trying to sidestep actions that deep down we know are shameful is a powerful instinct. From Reading Crimes by DR TONY HILL

He was about to pursue a course of action that would be as popular with his Chief Constable as a priest in an Orange Lodge.