Quotes About Action

Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

rational is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression

The world is an estranged and untrue world so long as man does not destroy its dead objectivity and recognize himself and his own life 'behind' the fixed form of things and laws. When he finally wins this self-consciousness, he is on his way not only to the truth of himself, but also of his world. And with the recognition goes the doing. He will try to put this truth into action, and make the world what it essentially is, namely, the fulfillment of man's self-consciousness.

Democracy is like a hobby horse: It will carry you nowhere unless you use your own legs.

M?c Ä'ích t?i th??ng c?a giáo d?c không ph?i là ki?n th?c mà là hành Ä'á»™ng.

Je weiter eine konkrete Tat entfernt ist, umso mehr ist dem Staat erlaubt, um sie zu verhindern.

Formerly men said that life was thought, but now we are told that life is will.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

He who hesitates is lost. There is no real truth in that statement, of course. Any kind of a generalisation is more or less half-baked, including this one. Truth of necessity requires the exposition of both of two opposing points of view.

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

The truth is lived, not taught.

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing." p. 5

knowing what we should be doing and actually doing it are two very different things.

all face two basic and interrelated questions: What to? How to?

Self-creation is a lifelong journey. Only by our actions do we learn who we want to become, how best to travel, and what else will need to change to ease the way.

All we have left to choose is different forms of terror. Terror and imperialism. That's all. Fascist imperialism. Soviet imperialism. Capitalist imperialism. Those are our only choices now, it seems. The time has come for radical action.

Perhaps this book will help my fellow countrymen remember that it is through the sum of daring individual actions that this nation has risen above all others and that our greatness comes only from the free interplay of singular wills.

Whatever the past may have handed on to us, it is up to each one of us to chisel our present out of the shapeless block of the future.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Who can take a single step with his head?

T?cerea nu-i o pauz? în vorbire, ci o treab? în sine.

Never procrastinate. Never say you'll do it tomorrow or the next day. Slow workers never fill their barns. Neither do procrastinators. Diligence does the job.