Quotes About Action

Sometimes any move at all is better than nothin. If you're right you're one up. If you're wrong you start over.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

G?sesc c? numa' a?a po?i tr?i pe lume, f?când mereu câte ceva, de vrei s? nu-nnebune?ti or s? nu scobori mai jos decât câinele ultimului om.

As we brew, we must bake

If thy prayer doth not set thee on work, neither will it set thy God at work for thee. Is it a lust thou art praying against? And dost thou sit down idle to see whether it will now die alone? Will that prayer slay one lust that lets another—thy sloth, I mean —live under its nose? As God will not save thy soul, so neither will he destroy thy sin, unless thy hand also be put to the work.

Sloth is not cured with sleep, nor laziness with idleness.

He makes the heart new, and having made it fit for heavenly motion, setting every wheel, as it were, in its right place, then he winds it up by his actuating grace, and sets it on going, the thoughts to stir, the will to move and make towards the holy object presented; yet here the chariot is set, and cannot ascend the hill of action till God puts his shoulder to the wheel: 'to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not,' Rom. 7:18.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens,' Lam. 3:41. That is, saith Bernard, oremus et laboremus—let us pray and use the endeavour. The hypocrite's tongue wags, but the sincere soul's feet walk, and his hands work.

They use faith as an eye but not as a hand; they look for victory to drop from heaven upon their heads, but do not fight to obtain it.

God hath ap pointed prayer as a help to our diligence, not as a cloak for our sloth.

Fides pinguescit operibus—'faith fattens or becomes strong on works,' Luther.

If we do only what is required of us we are slaves, the moment we do more we are free. – CICERO

She crowds each moment with endeavor.

a logical man must behave in a crisis as if his calculated risk were indeed a certainty Ã¢â'¬Â¦

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Hay tres tipos de acciones: físicas, verbales y mentales. Por lo general concedemos mayor importancia a las acciones físicas, luego a las verbales y por último a las mentales.

según el Dhamma, la ley de la naturaleza, la más importante es la acción mental. Los actos físicos o verbales asumen un significado totalmente distinto, dependiendo de la intención con la que estén hechos.

el Buda anunció: "La mente precede a todos los fenómenos, la mente es lo que más importa. La mente lo produce todo. Si con una mente impura hablas o actúas, entonces el sufrimiento te sigue, como la rueda del carro sigue la huella del animal uncido. Si con una mente pura hablas o actúas, entonces la felicidad te sigue como una sombra que nunca se separa"3.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.