Quotes About Action

In a similar vein, Taoism identifies freedom with wu wei: acting without acting.

Gandhi was not talking about defeating or overthrowing anyone. Satyagraha—Gandhi's nonviolent action—was not a way for one group to seize what it wanted from another. It was not a weapon of class struggle, or of any other kind of division. Satyagraha was instead an instrument of unity. It was a way to remove injustice and restore social harmony, to the benefit of both sides.

Satyagraha—Gandhi's nonviolent action—was not a way for one group to seize what it wanted from another. It was not a weapon of class struggle, or of any other kind of division. Satyagraha was instead an instrument of unity. It was a way to remove injustice and restore social harmony, to the benefit of both sides.

Salvation will not come from the legislators. Salvation will not come from the military. If there is any salvation, it will come from the people. Jayaprakash Narayan

Gandhi called his overall method of nonviolent action Satyagraha. This translates roughly as "Truth-force.

find a balance between building a new world and helping to save the existing one.

It felt so joyful," Ethan told me, "realizing that instead of having this money in the bank—and I could be dead tomorrow—I got to actually use energy to create the world I wanted to see.

You decide; then you act. You choose faith; then you walk through the door.

Hurry to it, she thought, and quickened her stride. That's what Papa always says. If you want things, hurry to it. If you want things done, hurry to it.

Saint Francis of Assisi once said, "Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.

Every day that you get up out of bed, every day God gives you on this earth, is an opportunity for you. He gives you each day to do with it whatever you want. You can waste it, or you can use it for good. Just remember, what you choose to do with each day is very important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it, and you don't know how many days you will have. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. All you will have is whatever you traded this day for.

You see, the longer you put a problem off, the worse it becomes

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

The first thing to do about a problem is to recognize it; the second thing is to state it; the third thing is to solve it.

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"