Quotes About Action

The time to act is when you still have privilege and power, not when you've had it stripped from you.

The point is just that people usually only figure out that things are turning bad when they turn bad for them, and by then it's too late. The time to act is when you still have privilege and power, not when you've had it stripped from you.

Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?

Without exception. It's easy to feel hopeless in the face of the difficult issues that we face every day—how could one person effectively resist anything so much larger than herself? Once we stop acting alone, we have a chance for positive change. To protest is to stop and say that you object, to resist is to stop others from going along without thinking and to build alternatives is to give everyone new choices.

living people can sometimes change their situations, while dead ones can't change a fucking thing.

The anthropocene is about collective action, not individuals. That's why climate change is such a clusterfuck. In default, they say that it's down to the individual choice and responsibility, but reality is that you can't personally shop your way out of climate change.

After all, wasn't the system the problem? No matter who we voted for, the government always seemed to win. What was the point of living out my little fantasy of democratic change and Justice when the real action was being fought out in secrecy, with Anonymous envelopes of cash, encrypted Whispers, secret bunkers, and secret deals?

He was a person for study as well as action; and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages: the Dutch tongue was become almost as vernacular to him as the English; the French tongue he could also manage; the Latin and the Greek he had mastered; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, "Because," he said, "he would see with his own eyes the ancient oracles of God in their native beauty.

Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.

love God and do as you please.

Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.

Men believe themselves to have free will because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. —BARUCH SPINOZA

Part of getting what you want is asking for it.

All the more reason for you to go

It's not about right belief; it's about right practice.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man.

Then a learning jumps to mind, that once you plan to do something, and figure how long it'll take, that's exactly how long Fate gives you before the next thing comes along to do.

It's cause and effect, Vernon

Sabemos hacer cosas pero no sabemos vivir. Es curioso ese rasgo familiar.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.