Quotes About Action

Faith is not to blindly believe, son. Faith is action. It's doing something. It's creating what we need and believing that God will be merciful enough to grant it in his time.

when everybody believes that everybody's actions are the result of free choice, and takes and gives responsibility accordingly, the result is civilization.

Still, just because humans did it, too, did not make it sensible.

Para impedir que un ser humano haga algo, hay que encontrar un medio para conseguir que deje de querer hacerlo.

We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationales are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.

Whatever action you take must be the final action, for you'll get no second chance to surprise the same man.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next. Yet

In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other - by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.

Some things in life just become very clear and we don't need a reason for them at all: I knew at that moment what I'd have to do.

He's such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.

Es mejor encender una vela que maldecir la oscuridad.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.