Quotes About Action

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

The spectacular escalation of violence unleashed in the 1930s and the 1940s was a testament to the kind of force that the insurgents believed themselves to be up against. It was precisely the looming potential, the future dominance of American capitalist democracy, that was the common factor impelling Hitler, Stalin, the Italian Fascists and their Japanese counterparts to such radical action.

Yo, por mi parte, no pienso tan austeramente como usted; me limito a actuar de la misma manera en que usted piensa.

It's important for these youngsters to realize that if they're genuinely sorry their feelings of remorse should be translated into action. The "repeat offender" can be told any of the following: "Sorry means behaving differently." "Sorry means making changes." "I'm glad to hear you're sorry. That's the first step. The second step is to ask yourself what can be done about it.

Remember, the best cure for worry is to do something positive. That's because fear is endless and formless, whereas even the worst outcome has an ending.

one must judge each situation and each action, not according to its "comfortableness" but according to whether or not it is likely to bring one nearer to that goal.

Waiting for salvation is, therefore, not a passive state of being; it is rather the active doing of every person whose every thought and deed can contribute to the redemption of the universe.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

When army review its forces more than 6 months and not attacking the enemy, know it is a danger to his people

If you cannot recognize the signs of Hitlerian Power, if you do not know how to counter their efforts, if you remain confused and uncertain as your opponent makes his moves, step by step with decisiveness and intention, and your inaction allows him to come closer to power, then you have already lost and they have won, for they know the rules of the game and you do not.

Una acción social no puede exigir el tributo de la gratitud porque ella no prodiga mercedes, sino que está destinada a restituir derechos.

Cuando advenga un tiempo no más empañado por la sombra de esa mala conciencia de la propia culpabilidad, entonces el instinto de conservación de sí mismo creará la tranquilidad íntima, la fuerza exterior para poder actuar sin contemplaciones en la eliminación de los brotes dañinos de la mala hierba.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge. Love is less subject to change than respect. Hatred is more lasting than mere aversion. And the driving force which has brought about the most tremendous revolutions on this earth has never been a body of scientific teaching which has gained power over the masses, but always a devotion which has inspired them, and often a kind of hysteria which has urged them to action.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

Coco, however, courted consequence; she was still a girl, and she still assumed a connection between what she was doing and what she wanted and what might result.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

A little lift meant a little fall; a bigger lift, a bigger fall.

If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are disturbed as to how, by, and against whom wealth and political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wanting to act with others, to "do something," you have much in common with the writers of the three essays in Manifesto.

The world tells me I am its creature I am raked by eyes brushed by hands I want to crawl into her for refuge lay my head in the space between her breast and shoulder abnegating power for love as women have done or hiding from power in her love like a man I refuse these givens the splitting between love and action I am choosing not to suffer uselessly and not to use her I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about.

I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.

When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it.