Quotes About Action

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

and to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

extraverts (EST) organize the situation itself, including any idle bystanders, and get things rolling

Well-developed introverts can deal ably with the world around them when necessary, but they do their best work inside their heads, in reflection. Similarly well-developed extraverts can deal effectively with ideas, but they do their best work externally, in action.

All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them.

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have the satisfaction of getting my own way.

Possiamo fare solo quello che possiamo; ma questo dobbiamo farlo, nonostante le difficoltà.

In the realm of political action, laws are few and far indeed: skills are everything.

I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly improbable in fact happen.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Man is a moving being. If he does not move to what is good, he will surely move to that what is not. If this consciousness does not arise here, another consciousness will arise there. Man's mind goes through multifarious changes and never stops.

Upon hearing that all phenomena are but a reflection of the mind, their minds were suddenly opened and their spirits settled; they let go of what they had depended on and gained total freedom of action.

When you leave things to Heaven, but have not done everything you could in human affairs, you will not have understood Heaven's Way. You will just be waiting for things to happen of their own accord, and this is called entrusting things to fate. For the moment, however, it could be said that if you are confused and unsettled, you should go ahead and leave things to fate.

To him who is determined it remains only to act.

Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

How long are you going to let yourself be dragged passively by the plot? You had flung yourself into the action, filled with adventurous impulses: and then? Your function was quickly reduced to that of one who records situations decided by others, who submits to whims, finds himself involved in events that elude his control. Then what use is your role as protagonist to you? If you continue lending yourself to this game, it means that you, too, are an accomplice of the general mystification.

Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly.

Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzi? t? wojn?, która w danej chwili si? toczy, i co najwy?ej pomy?le? jeszcze o nast?pnej.

sólo intentaba hacer bien lo que le parecía bien hacer,