Quotes About Action

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

I've said it before and I say it again: "A man's got to do what a brainless idiot's got to do.

Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't.

A man drove himself insane He was driven Insane At least he was driven I don't know about you But it sure seems better Than just sitting around talking about it

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.

Right now, God is working all around you.

Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearly;To love his fellow-men sincerely;To act from honest motives purely;To trust in God and Heaven securely.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Let us, then, be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.

All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn't than end up wishing I had.

Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man's awareness that his position in the world obliges him to perform certain actions. A person acts according to his faith, not as the catechism says because he believes in things unseen as in things seen, nor because he wishes to achieve things hoped for, but simply because having defined his position in the world it is natural for him to act according to it.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims. A deed once done becomes irrevocable, and any action comes together over time with millions of actions performed by other people to create historical significance.

If in Doubt, don't do it

One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.

But I am alive still. Now what's to be done? what's to be done?

But what can I do?' - I answer those who speak thus. - '... must I therefore not point out the evil which I clearly, unquestionably see?