Quotes About Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

Things don't just happen. They are made to happen.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

If there is a lesson from the lives of the men John Kennedy depicts in this book, if there is a lesson from his life and from his death, it is that in this world of ours none of us can afford to be lookers-on, the critics standing on the sidelines.

People need change now, today. Even one more child dying from hunger, one more life blighted by poverty, is one too many.

So much depends on my actions, so I am seeing fewer people, simplifying my life, organizing it so that I am not always on the edge of irritability.

Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.

One man can make a difference and everyone should try

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.

Then she did something as strange, as shocking, as if she had thrown off her clothes. She smiled.

Armastan elada täisverelist elu, armastan kõiki, kes lihtsalt ei istu ja jälgi.

Yapt???n?z ÅŸeyler, daha önce yapt?klar?n?z? belirsizleÅŸtirir.

She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.

Singurul lucru cu adev?rat important este s? simÈ›i È™i s? tr?ieÈ™ti pentru lucrurile în care crezi - atâta vreme cât nu te limitezi s? crezi numai în propriul t?u confort.

Trebuie s? faci întotdeauna ceva. Când crezi cu adev?rat în ceva, trebuie s? acÈ›ionezi. A te mulÈ›umi s? vorbeÈ™ti despre acÈ›iune este ca È™i cum te-ai l?uda dinainte cu tablourile pe care ai de gând s? le pictezi. E de cel mai îngrozitor prost gust.

Cei ce ne educ? îngr?m?desc în noi atâtea idei vechi, opinii învechite, vechi modalit??i de acÈ›iune. Ca È™i cum ai acoperi plantele cu straturi peste straturi de p?mânt vechi. Nici nu e de mirare c? bietele ml?diÈ›e care r?sar sunt rareori verzi È™i proaspete.

We were equally tired, in mid-century, of cold sanity and hot blasphemy; of the over-cerebral and of the over-faecal; the way out lay somewhere else. Words had lost their power, either for good or for evil; still hung, like a mist, over the reality of action, distorting, misleading, castrating; but at least since Hitler and Hiroshima they were seen to be a mist, a flimsy superstructure.

Iubesc cinstea, È™i libertatea, È™i generozitatea. Iubesc capacitatea de a face ceva, de a crea. Îmi place s? m? implic din plin. Iubesc tot ce nu este static È™i îi ur?sc pe toÈ›i cei care se mulÈ›umesc s? stea de o parte È™i s? ptiveasc?, s? plagieze, pe cei a c?ror inim? a murit înaintea trupului.

PoÈ›i accepta f?r? s? ierÈ›i, dup? cum poÈ›i lua o hot?râre f?r? s-o pui neap?rat în aplicare.

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

We attend too many seminars. We take too many classes. We buy too many books. We play too many audios in our cars. It's all wasted if we're unclear on what learning really is: Learning is not attending, listening, or reading. Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know. It's about changing. If we have not changed we have not learned.

Questions that begin with "When" lead to procrastination.