Quotes About Action

In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

each subjective pleasure which had no foundation in action, there was a subjective sorrow,

Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is the time. This we know, it is a part of action, not of whining. It is a part of love, not cynicism. It is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. This we know, for we have learned from sad experience that any other course of life leads toward decay and waste.

WHO DARES WINS

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises — car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

If we witness an act of discrimination but do not speak up or intervene, then we tacitly support it.

If social authority aims at united action, epistemic authority aims at the truth, which is as necessary to human flourishing as social authority.

One of the most trying experiences an individual can go through is the period of doubt, of soul-searching, to determine whether to fight the battle or fly from it," Nixon wrote in Six Crises. "It is in such a period that almost unbearable tensions build up, tensions that can be relieved only by taking action, one way or the other. And significantly, it is this period of crisis conduct that separates the leaders from the followers.

As soon as Congress does whatever it's going to do, and the U.S. doesn't go bankrupt, I think the market opens back up again.

Never, ever, ever, act on assumptions. Search out the facts and act on those.

is that we created a government that is doing this to us. It

Now, you get on this here moped at once!" The

Amber took charge, and ordered Tom to wheel her towards Sally. Then she handed her friend the flowers

Zoe had to do something or she would be roadkill.

WHOOSH! The creature dodged

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Most people already know what they are supposed to do, but they choose not to do it.

This was a man's man. One who could lead, control, rebel and oppose. He was the type of man that an African woman needed in situations like the ones they were in. He didn't care what the consequences were, if he felt it; he just did it. Just made it happen without further regards to the side effects.

Let's be about it, people.