Quotes About Action

Kiedy si? czego? mocno pragnie, to ca?y Wszech?wiat dzia?a potajemnie na nasz? korzy??.

I only know that a life without cause is a life without effect.

You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)

It matters not how we were brought up. What determines our way of acting is the manner in which we administrate our will. A man is the sum of all his wishes, which determine his way of living and dying.

Don't try to convince anyone of anything. When you don't know something, ask or go away and find out. But when you do act, be like the silent, flowing river and open yourself to a greater energy. Believe -- that's what I said at our first meeting -- simply believe that you can.

Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful.

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action.

Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.

Any action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

But never hold back from firing the arrow if all that paralyzes you is fear of making a mistake. If you ave made the right movements, open your hand and release the string. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you will learn how to improve your aim next time. If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make. Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have receive a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

El amor no hace muchas preguntas, porque si empezamos a pensar empezamos a tener miedo. Es un miedo inexplicable, y no vale la pena intentar traducirlo en palabras. »Puede ser el miedo al desprecio, a no ser aceptada, a quebrar el encanto. Parece ridículo, pero es así. Por eso no se pregunta: se actúa. Como tú mismo has dicho tantas veces, se corren los riesgos.

Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.

The problem with the world is not a shortage of brilliant theories or feel-good slogans. The problem is that we confuse proliferation of progressive terminology with profound empathy and purposeful engagement. We say the right things, but we fail to act on them because we want to feel virtuous without paying a price

There can be no meaningful change if we choose to look down at the arena of anguish from thirty thousand feet.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied

Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

And as she had learned to do, while she pondered on large things, she acted on small ones.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The

When O-lan saw what he had done she burst out in terror, "You have cut off your life!

With the global economy in chaos and the environment of the planet at risk, with war raging and suffering escalating, it is time for each of us in our own lives to take the leap and do whatever we can to help turn things around.