Quotes About Action

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.

[T]he course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others. Whatever action is required, whenever action is necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.

Homo-voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?