Quotes About Action

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Weil die an den Himmel glauben, wollen sie auf der Erde nichts ändern.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

Author Edward Johnson neatly labels such cop-outs as the pussyfooting passive.

There's always one more thing you can do to influence any situation in your favor—and after that one more thing, and after that…. The more you do the more opportunities arise.

A commander in battle has three means of influencing the action: Fire support, now pouring down in torrents; his personal presence on the battlefield; and the use of his reserve.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

For as long as you wait for them to make the first move, you will continue to be plagued by the hidden resentments you carry inside.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

Every theory of social action is ultimately a philosophy of history. It attempts, as best it may, to read in the experience of mankind the lessons which would justify its own special urgency.

When something causes you concern, stop and think about what you need to do about it. If there is nothing you can do about it, talk to God about what belongs to Him and what is yours.

Deberíamos usar el pasado como trampolín y no como sofá.

I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view.

Action Painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

The canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act—rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze, or "express" an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

For Judaism, sin is a deed, not a condition.