Quotes About Action

It is pointless to sit and ruminate about how dreadful your life is going to be if you act on a fearsome, violent, obsessive thought. You are not going to do it. Why not? Because the real you doesn't want to do it.

To assert a belief in free will is to accept responsibility for our actions and to recognize the mind as "more or less a first cause, an unmoved mover," as the theorist Thomas Clark says: it is to hold the view that "we could have willed otherwise in the radical sense that the will is not the explicable or predictable result of any set of conditions that held at the moment of choice.

For quantum theory elegantly explains how our actions are shaped by our will, and our will by our attention, which is not strictly controlled by any known law of nature.

all it took to succeed was to stop listening to my internal critic and to just start doing.

We aren't happy by accident. This is a conscious choice, one that takes daily action.

Rhetoric won't bring us a casserole after our knee surgery. Philosophy won't cheer us on as we make the case for a promotion. A viewpoint won't take us out to get sloppy drunk when we've been dumped.

If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.

In order to kick ass you must first lift up your foot.     ââ'¬â€Jen Sincero; author, coach, self-quoter

maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realize you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous

I figured we'd be too busy running for our lives than for him to make a move anyway. (Dana)

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

As we said, consciousness is everything. Even now, acknowledging inequality begs one to do something about it--and that is a daunting, albeit righteous, responsibility.

If you wait until you are perfect and free of conflicts, you will never change anything in the world.

Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the

Of course you might get shot, but you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. She handed him a plate of deviled eggs. Have one.

all it took for evil to flourish was for good men to stand by and do nothing?

Disapproval always depends on other people - dead people, foreigners - doing the unacceptable action.

For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects. Antipathy, therefore, can never be a right ground of action.

No really. If you only have seven years left, that means the Reaper will be dropping round for tea and buns in about 61,000 hours from now. You therefore shouldn't be wasting time by pootling to the garden centre at walking pace. So come on, grandad. The clock's ticking. Pedal to the metal. Or you'll be in your flowerbed before the plants you bought.

What do you think this is, a Matthew Reilly novel?" "Whether

The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA, "enemy killed in action," even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless

Most people who avoid quitting their jobs entertain the thought that the job will improve with time or with an increased income. This is a tempting hallucination that occurs when a job is boring or uninspiring, instead of being pure hell. Pure hell forces action, but anything less than this can be endured with enough rationalization.

Others Act Upon Me, Therefore I Am

Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in front, not behind us; and Forward! is our motto.