Quotes About Action

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, and Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself. That's the helpful thing about the Indian idea of karma. Your fate is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Now you can see today why the world is in trouble. What is the social field today? The social field is the planet, and there isn't a single system of action that has to do with the planet. They all have to do with one interest group or another.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

There were always sides to one committee—those who planned, those who planned and executed, and those who talked—that is, complained.

I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.' Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.

I allow myself eddies of meaning: yield to a direction of significance running like a stream through the geography of my work: you can find in my sayings swerves of action like the inlet's cutting edge: there are dunes of motion, organizations of grass, white sandy paths or remembrance in the overall wandering of mirroring mind: but Overall is beyond me — A.R. Ammons, from "Corsons Inlet," Collected Poems: 1951-1971 (W. W. Norton & Co., 1972)

a teacher should never touch symbols. If he is going to use psychology he should do so more in action than in words.

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep silent.

Toute pensée occupant uniquement notre esprit devient vraie pour nous et a tendance à se transformer en acte. - Any thought that occupies our mind becomes true for us and tends to turn into action.

Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done

Now, you should admit it: you are here engaged in some military action directed against the Yuuzhan Vong, knowing full well that any action you take could embroil the people of this peaceful world in your destructive war." "Isn't destructive war kind of redundant? Until I see a constructive war, or even a giggly war, I have to think so." Mudlath & Han

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive....and go do that.

Stop the rot or lose the plot.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" (Pirkei Avot 1:14)

Observe the world around you - everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.