Quotes About Action

Decisions are made by those who show up

You do smart things and stupid things in the thick of a moment.

She didn't need to be someone else. She needed to use her power to make the world a better place.

Because whether inspiration comes from an actual place or not doesn't matter if you don't choose to do something with it. And if you do choose to do something with it, the stories you create don't matter unless they make ripples in the world.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

sometimes people overdose on the headlines, which is generally not a good idea, we can't do much about the catastrophes of the world, so why be depressed by learning about it all the time ? Check the news every couple of weeks maybe, but there's no point wasting your time learning about some famine in Africa if you're not immediately doing something about it, it just makes you feel dismal. "Medical Benefits of the Sunnah, 1:20:58

C'est en s'engageant dans l'action que l'on bat la peur.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.

In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator....We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

Abigail Van Buren

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.