Quotes About Action

and she abandons herself to the flow of reading as if to the sole possible action of life…

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

a preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize murder only through wickedness.

Bullies are almost always outnumbered by the bullied. We just need to organize.

I believe a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independant, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows us to produce and consume.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it.

Today really matters if tomorrow really counts!

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

The best way to appreciate the nature and objectives of an enemy is to observe him in action.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

Meditation is not about accepting the unacceptable. It is about seeing the world with greater clarity so that you can take wiser and more considered action to change those things that need to be changed.

Take care, don't fight, and remember if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

A man always has two reasons for what he doesa good one, and the real one.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Knowledge without action is empty as a shadow.