Quotes About Action

La verdad. Qué cierto es eso de que cuando llevamos mucho tiempo buscando la verdad, el día que por fin la descubrimos llega lo más difícil. ¿Qué hacer con ella? Lo curioso no es tanto haberla tenido delante de nuestros ojos todo el tiempo y no haber sabido verla hasta el último momento. Lo realmente curioso es que cuando por fin aparece, la verdad no permite largos plazos. Exige actuar, normalmente con urgencia.

si crees que no hacer es vivir mejor. No, no hacer es vivir menos, y eso tú deberías saberlo.

Quien actúa de modo automático es esencia sin existencia".

Escribir no vale de nada si no acarrea la agotadora e irresoluble carga de las decisiones sin consecuencia alguna.

Antigone emerges as a figure of pure desire precisely because, with her words and actions, she incites in others this tenacious question: What does she want? She states what she wants from the outset, yet there is no one in the play who is not baffled at one point or another by this question: OK, she wants to bury Polyneices, but what does she actually want?

Ogni tanto mi chiedo che cosa stiamo aspettando? -Che sia troppo tardi.

Era una delle sue massime questa, che, per riuscire a far del bene alla gente, la prima cosa, nella maggior parte de' casi, è di non metterli a parte del disegno.

Si sa che agli uomini il bene bisogna, le più volte, farlo per forza.

Persuaso che la vita non è già destinata ad essere un peso per molti,e una festa per alcuni, ma per tutti un impegno, del quale ognuno renderà conto, cominciò da fanciullo a pensare come potesse render la sua utile e santa.

A real ninja doesn't leave things in the hands of fate and destiny. They create their own destiny.

Games–like life–are all about waiting for chances and then pouncing on them.

There is also the question of when you should make a decision. There are probably only two times to do so - too early and too late. If I was going to err on making one of those mistakes, I far preferred to make the decision earlier rather than later. That's much easier to say than to do.

When you've found out that the person you love loves you, you can't delay. You have to hurry.

I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.

I wonder how many times in my life I would have been able to prevent something, change something, do something different, if only I'd listened to someone.

It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. DOn't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a vida, pack a bag, and it just happens.

Exitus probatur," he said. The end is justified. "Ergo acta probantur," said one of the waiting men. Therefore the means are justified.

It's your life. Only you can choose what you make with it, whether it's chicken salad or chicken shit.

You know the answer to that as well as I do. Psychologically it's much easier to swallow a pill than pull the trigger, especially if you're not so keen on the idea to begin with.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Being part of any solution means taking action. And taking action involves more than just dreaming, no matter how vivid, how real, one's dreams appear. Whether dreaming or awake, when we are prisoners of our thoughts, we can't always see very clearly through the bars of our metaphorical prison cell, let alone take action.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!50