Quotes About Action

Eliminate, therefore, any possible tendency to complain of conditions as they have been or as they are, because it rests with you to change them and make them what you would like them to be.

FAITH is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!

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 existence; The Bliss of Growth; The Glory of Action; The Splendor of Beauty For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well lived makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, and Every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day! — From the Sanscrit.

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It doesn't take much legal sleight of hand to transform an act into an omission and vice versa. If I starve a child to death by refusing to feed it, I should expect a frosty reception to my submission at my murder trial that I was only omitting to do something. And there are various thought experiments devised by philosophers that seek to indicate that there is no distinction of substance between acts and omissions.

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

In this country ... men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Verbs. All of them tiring.

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!

But be careful: Measures are only beneficial if they lead to profitable action. It is tempting to measure things simply because they are easy to measure; instead, we need to measure things that matter, even when it is difficult to do so. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts,"4 Einstein observed.

Brave actions never want a trumpet.

Spoil not an act of kindness by speaking of it.

Go put your creed into your deed...

Live truth instead of professing it.

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

There are actions which the whole world considers fine... They will say the same of great moral maxims; of that of Zoroaster: "If in doubt that an action be just, desist;" of that of Confucius: "Forget injuries; never forget kindnesses."

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

She did not believe in happy endings... not anymore. There were no endings in life except death. There was only the present moment, the passage of breath into breath, action and reaction, word after word, a story that was still being told.

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.

It's not what if, it's what now.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

Luck has a peculiar habit of connecting with the man on the move...

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. But it's hard. Hard.