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Quotes About Action

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
~ Terry Pratchett
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
The present was always paramount, in a way that thrust you forward: empty, but also free. Whatever stories you told over to yourself and others, you were in truth exposed and naked in the present, a prow cleaving new waters; your past was insubstantial behind, it fell away, it grew into desuetude, its forms grew obsolete. The problem was, you were always still alive, until the end. You had to do something.
~ Tessa Hadley
needed to take a step forward.
~ Texas Bix Bender
A love which does not prove itself in action is not enough, nor is our natural readiness to please a friend; that is not charity, for sinners are ready to do the same. Jesus
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
A warrior has to believe, otherwise he cannot activate his intent positively.
~ Théun Mares
Warriors win battles, not by ignoring them, but through clarity.
~ Théun Mares
Impeccability is to act to the very best of your ability upon whatever knowledge happens to be available to you at any given moment.
~ Théun Mares
KNOWLEDGE CAN BE ACQUIRED ONLY THROUGH ACTION IN DAILY LIFE.
~ Théun Mares
IF YOU POSTPONE TAKING ACTION BECAUSE YOU FEAR FAILURE, OR BECAUSE OF FEELING INADEQUATE, YOU HAVE ALREADY FAILED.
~ Théun Mares
SELF-CONFIDENCE IMPLIES THAT YOU ARE CONVINCED YOU CAN ACT UPON YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE.
~ Théun Mares
kill trhe beast before it kills you
~ Thaddeus Stevens
Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a corrupted heart, then suffering follows you — as the wheel of the cart, the track of the ox that pulls it. Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a calm, bright heart, then happiness follows you, like a shadow that never leaves.
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
With our love, we could save the world ... if they only knew.
~ The Beatles
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
~ The Belzer Rabbi
We all need to really spread positive cause this world is corrupted...
~ The Blonde Jon
All that we are is made up of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with a pure thought, happiness will follow him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~ The Dhammapada
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
~ The Dhammapada
A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand?
~ The Hitopadesa
The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man accomplishes his works by his own act.
~ The Hitopadesa
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
~ The Music Man
To accomplish our dreams, we must act on achieving gaols
~ the omani shed
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.
~ The Paris Review
Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn.
~ The Sufi