Quotes About Action

The common thread among them: They have discovered that in this world, there is no real doing without first being.

Newton: a toda acción corresponde una reacción de igual magnitud pero en sentido contrario. Es la esencia de lo que los filósofos orientales llaman karma. En El color púrpura, el personaje Celie lo explica a Mister: "Todo lo que trates de hacerme, ya se ha hecho en ti". Tus acciones giran a tu alrededor, tan seguro como que la tierra gira alrededor del sol.

The thoughts that linger are the "If only" questions, like Who could I have become if I had finally done the things I always wanted to do? The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you WILL die, you must live NOW. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands. You are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with the choice to get up, step out, and live. Fully.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Nothing happens until you decide.

If you act as if nothing has happened, and if nothing more comes of it, you will indeed find that nothing has happened after all.

As the early 20th century writer Orison Swett Marden once said, "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

Opportunity becomes invisible to those who are doing nothing, or looking somewhere else for it.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

When I don't know whether to fight or not, I always fight.

No matter how strongly and perfectly constructed, or how powerful a locomotive may be, unless the water is heated to 212 degrees, the train will not move an inch. Warm water, water even at the boiling point, will not answer.

woe to him who stops to tie his shoestring?

The world grants all opportunities to him who can use them.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

No two things differ more than Hurry and Dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, Dispatch of a strong one.

Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow.

Do little things now, says a Persian proverb; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. God will take care of the great things if we do not neglect the little ones.

Where is the man who will save us? We want a man! Don't look so far for this man. You have him at hand. This man—it is you, it is I; it is each one of us!... How to constitute one's self a man? Nothing harder, if one knows not how to will it; nothing easier, if one wills it. —Alexander Dumas.

Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.