Quotes About Action

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results. Since the desire for more life is inherent in all things, when a man begins to move toward larger life more things attach themselves to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied.

gran objetivo de la educación -dijo Herbert Spencer no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Pasaré una sola vez por este camino; de modo que cualquier bien que pueda hacer o cualquier cortesía que pueda tener para con cualquier ser humano, que sea ahora. No la dejaré para mañana, ni la olvidaré, porque nunca más volveré a pasar por aquí. Emerson dijo: Todo hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.

Good Working Habit No. 3. When You Face a Problem, Solve It Then and There if You Have the Facts Necessary to Make a Decision. Don't Keep Putting off Decisions.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white.

Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.

it is easier to do ill than well in the world.

From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.

the United States succeeded by State action in prohibiting the slave-trade from 1798 to 1803, in furthering the cause of abolition, and in preventing the fitting out of slave-trade expeditions in United States ports. The country had good cause to congratulate itself.

the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.

Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, see ? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all?

With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn't anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever

an ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.