Quotes About Action

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. One went up and the other went down. One gained, the other lost. One escaped, the other was trapped, forever.

Ter permissão para fazer algo e saber fazer algo são coisas diferentes.

Tinha aprendido que quando as pessoas estavam decididas a fazer algo que acreditavam ser uma boa ação, em geral era impossível dissuadi-las.

A million little chances to change the future.

It is not too late. It is not too late.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

The thing most feared in secret always happens… All it needs is a little courage. The more the pain grows clear and definite, the more the instinct for life asserts itself and the thought of suicide recedes. It seemed easy when I thought of it. Weak women have done it. It needs humility not pride. I am sickened by all this. Not words. Action. I shall write no more.

Bir ÅŸeyi yapabileceÄŸimizi bilmek bize yetiyor, bu yüzden belki onu yapmaktan bile vazgeçiyoruz.

È peccato solo il rifare un'azione che già si sa porta al rimorso e quindi a una risoluzione (arricchimento) che non ci arricchisce piú, avendoci già arricchito una volta. Dico bene?

We must try to think beyond our homes, beyond the fire burning in the fireplace, beyond sending our children to school or getting to work in the morning. We must try to think how we can help this world. If we don't help, nobody will. It is our turn to help the world.

There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.

Action without compassion is like planting a dead tree. It will never grow. But any action that contains compassion is planting a living tree that grows endlessly and never dies. Or even if the tree dies, it always leaves a seed behind, which will grow into another tree. That organic quality of compassion goes on and on and on.

It has been said that sleeping, dreaming, and meditating, or developing awareness, are the only states in which we do not sow further seeds of karma.

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

The easiest way to never get anything done is to never commit to anything.

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done

Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped upon a galled horse.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

A satisfactory answer clearly cannot be found in the assumption that each person's actions proceed from an unfettered, autonomous will. The reason for the choice would still have to be discovered. Nor will it do to attribute the difference of choice to different environmental influences in which the "self" is placed. This would indeed be reducing the man to the level of a machine, or to a lower level still. And the same environmental influences do not produce identical results.

And why urge people to make an effort in this or that direction if everything, including the effort or its absence, is determined?

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.