Quotes About Action

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

There had been virtually no opposition, but three years of almost continuous action had taught Gerhard how, in times like this, the greatest danger was complacency.

If a man doubts everything, then he will attempt nothing. The strong men of this world are the ones who are always certain of their own rightness.

ford.' He turned to Saul. 'I'm going to take

Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.

our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day.

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding

The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is precisely the sign of their incapacity for action.

He does not admire the merely contemplative life; like Goethe he scorns knowledge that does not lead to action: men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators.

Our actions, once we initiate them, seem to follow fixed and invariable laws, but only because we perceive their results through sense, which clothes all that it transmits in the dress of that causal law which our minds themselves have made.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding"5

custom is the natural selection of those modes of action that have been found most convenient in the experience of the group.

Materialism is like a grammar that recognizes only nouns; but reality, like language, contains action as well as objects, verbs as well as substantives, life and motion as well as matter.

So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.

Let ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them.

Meanwhile the old "laughing philosopher" was cultivating his garden at Ferney; this "is the best thing we can do on earth.

Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Active evil is better than passive good

Think in the morning. Act in the noon.

Los Sexos nacidos del Orgullo y la Vergüenza florecieron en la mañana y en la noche murieron; mas la Piedad cambió la Muerte en Sueño; los Sexos se irguieron para obrar y llorar.