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Quotes About Action

Don't just wait, do something, you will save a live
~ Pius Masai Mwachi
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
~ Plato
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~ Plato
He means well" is useless unless he does well.
~ Plautus
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
~ Pliny the Elder
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
~ Plutarch
But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
~ Plutarch
To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
~ Plutarch
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it…eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
~ Plutarch
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
~ Plutarch
Practicing is greater than knowing." Not better than knowing. Greater.
~ PO BRONSON
When you act, you learn. That kind of wisdom beats the knowledge you read in a book, every time. To really seek answers, you need to act. To really develop your mind, run more experiments.
~ PO BRONSON
The time he wasted ruined his life the time he wasted ruined his future. POET MD HEDAETUL ISLAM
~ POET MD HEDAETUL ISLAM
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
~ Pope John Paul II
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
~ Pope Paul VI
If every man, as much as he can and as best he can, will work for justice and peace in the world, then each Christian will have at heart the request that Mary pray with us and for us, so that the peace the Lord alone can give may be granted us.
~ Pope Paul VI
If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
If I have learned anything, it is that intelligence and knowledge are worth little by themselves. Failing the enlightenment that goes beyond words and the world, they serve mainly to provide us with wonderful reasons for doing what we intend to do regardless.
~ Poul Anderson
A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.
~ Poul Anderson
TODAY Yesterday was a TODAY; bygone Everyday is a TODAY; in action...! Tomorrow is a TODAY; imminent We cant repossess yesterday We cant do anything in Tomorrow; We acquire TODAY as the day of action; Be somebody, Do something special ; make every TODAY, a special day...!!!
~ Prabhu
Kasihan hanya perasaan orang berkemauan baik yang tidak mampu berbuat. Kasihan hanya satu kemewahan, atau satu kelemahan. Yang terpuji memang dia yang mampu melakukan kemauan baiknya.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
kau harus bertindak terhadap siapa saja yang mengambil seluruh atau sebagian dari milikmu, sekali pun hanya segumpil batu yang tergeletak di bawah jendela. Bukan karena batu itu sangat berharga bagimu. Azasnya: mengambil milik tanpa ijin: pencurian; itu tidak benar, harus dilawan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Manusia terlalu sering bertepuk hanya sebelah tangan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer