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Quotes About Action

I'm going to start my exercise in courage, living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage.
~ Clarice Lispector
That's because this story lacks a cantabile melody. Its rhythm is sometimes discordant. And it has facts. I suddenly fell for facts without literature — facts are hard stones and action is now more interesting to me than thinking, you can't get away from facts.
~ Clarice Lispector
She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer.
~ Clarice Lispector
Living demands such audacity.
~ Clarice Lispector
That power he had to deplete things before getting them, that stark premonition he had of "afterward" ...Before taking the first step toward action, he had already tasted the saturation and sorrow that follow victories...
~ Clarice Lispector
Yes, I know," continued Joana. "The distance that separates emotions from words. I've already thought about that. And the most curious thing is that the moment I try to speak not only do I fail to express what I feel but what I feel slowly becomes what I say. Or at least what makes me act is not, most certainly, what I feel but what I say.
~ Clarice Lispector
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
~ Unknown
Lo único que no está marcado, decía Robert, es qué hará cada persona después de pasar por esa circunstancia.
~ Unknown
It is never too late to do what is right.
~ Claudio Sanchez
noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. So
~ Unknown
If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
~ Cleveland Abbe
if you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first in­stance not at its theories or its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it; you should look at what the practitioners of it do.
~ Clifford Geertz
Do what has to be done, he thought. Do it quickly and well. You're a professional. Pay the price… whatever it may be. Head
~ Clifford Irving
Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Notions are ideas inside connotations. You borrow a c and you come up with an action.
~ Unknown
People will keep on doing the same things they like to do in many places not because they don't care about others. They just keep on holding on to opportunities while chances are still not ceased.
~ Unknown
Don't forget to put some pressure on addressing the imperative issues that can benefit the world.
~ Unknown
Global warming is a universal behavior of listlessness and lack of discipline.
~ Unknown
Religion is what you do and what you are.
~ Unknown
Thinking like human is the easy part. Acting and living like human is the hard part.
~ Unknown
We do not put value on the words that we speak if we cannot perform the words that we unleash.
~ Unknown
People of the world are not standing by for rhetorics in addressing the problems confronting the world, but for solutions.
~ Unknown
There is no fair play in an unbalanced platform. But there is something that you can do about it.
~ Unknown