Quotes About Action

The actions you take will shape your future for better or for worse. Such is the power of choice.

Emotions, no matter how painful, are not the problem. The problem is dropping out of school or work, putting your family or duties or life on hold until such time as you can work out your emotional issues. Would you rather feel depressed while sitting alone in your room trying to figure it all out or feel depressed while getting your house cleaned or your project completed? (You may still feel depressed, but you have a cleaner house.)

The heart of accepting your emotions (and, as you've seen, of reclaiming your will) is to do what you need to do despite what you are feeling.

If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, What am I? And if not now, when? — Hillel, Sayings of the Fathers

Then act—because success always boils down to this: Know your adversaries; then apply your will.

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice." "It

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear; heroes just act differently.

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Wisdom is doing it.

True love is not feelings or flowery words; it is action. Love is as love does

But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains.

we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.

In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark—Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V—had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.

Are we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.

It has to be your decision. The weapon is yours to use or disregard. It pains the Core to take any human life Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or, through inaction, allow any human life to come to harm. But in this case, where the lives of billions are at risk Ã¢â'¬Â¦

shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Ah, well, thought Charlie, ours is not to wonder why, ours is but to do and die.

If you are reading this, you are almost certainly reading it for the wrong reason. But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. Only the immutable facts that I have written this and you are reading it remain important in the end.

There is no such thing as a good decision and a bad decision. There are only decisions. Make them, fuck up, enjoy, repeat.

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.

that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

impulse is the medium of emotion; the seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action.

As we all know from experience, when it comes to shaping our decisions and our actions, feeling counts every bit as much—and often more—than thought.

All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb "to move," plus the prefix "e-" to connote "move away," suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion. That

All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb "to move," plus the prefix "e-" to connote "move away," suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion.