Quotes About Action

Wrong to seal illogic with a kiss but I do it myself all the time.

I walked round the block thinking I'd think about it, but my legs were heading home, and sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do.

What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the things that one has done oneself?

Just as they were driving off on his horrible Iron Curtain motor bike, he patted my arm, told me he knew, and forgave us both. There was only one thing I could do; mustering all my spit, I did it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To live is not to breathe but to act.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

He who wills the end wills the means also

To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.

Cuando hay que hacer lo contrario de mi voluntad, no lo hago, ocurra lo que ocurra; tampoco hago mi voluntad, porque soy débil. Me abstengo de actuar: dado que toda mi debilidad es para la acción, toda mi fuerza es negativa, y todos mis pecados son de omisión, raramente de comisión.

L'homme vraiment libre ne veut que ce qu'il peut, et fait ce qu'il lui plaît.

I may be asked whether I am a prince or a legislator that I should be writing about politics. I answer no: and indeed that is my reason for doing so. If I were a prince or a legislator I should not waste my time saying what ought to be done; I should do it or keep silent.

He visto que para obrar el bien con placer era preciso que actuase libremente, sin coacción, y que para privarme de toda la dulzura de una buena obra bastaba con que se convirtiera en un deber para mí.

Hükümdar ya da yasac? olsayd?m, ne demek gerektiÄŸini söyleyip vaktimi boÅŸuna harcamaz, ya yapaca??m? yapar ya da susard?m.

Young teacher, pray consider this example, and remember that your lessons should always be in deeds rather than words, for children soon forget what they say or what is said to them, but not what they have done nor what has been done to them.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing is out of the question.

What you get is what you get. What you DO with what you get, though...that's more the point, wouldn't you say -Doon's Father

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, though . . . that's more the point, wouldn't you say?

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito.

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito, I'd tell people.

Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.