Quotes About Action

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Take a step toward your dream today. No matter how tiny the step, it will give you the energy and desire to take another.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.