Quotes About Action

Atrocitus: You believe fear to be the most powerful force in the universe? Fear is inaction. Fear is hiding away. Fear is cowering and begging. Rage is action. Rage is spilling blood. Sinestro: Rage is uncontrollable.

As Rorschach so poetically put it, "This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not god who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us."12

Una acción o bono sólo vale el ingreso que produzca en el futuro.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.

To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.

But if each day we gather some new truths, plant ourselves more firmly upon principles which are eternal, guard every thought and action, that it may be pure, and conform our lives more nearly to that Perfect Model, we shall form a character that will be a fit background on which to paint the noblest deeds and the grandest intellectual and moral achievements; a character that cannot be concealed, but which will bring success in this life and form the best preparation for that which is beyond.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

Katie bar the door.

Whatever you think you're not capable of doing, the minute you think it, the moment it enters your mind, just in the imagining, it's already been done. Only a matter of time before your hands follow through.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.