Quotes About Action

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

And what if you don't wait? You just drive over the edge yourself? Wouldn't that be the only right thing to do, the one that would solve everything?

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

There is no point in waiting, as every moment is the right moment.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

You can't think and hit at the same time

Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.

Your total life is nothing without activity. When you are not acting, you are dead. You act in sleep also. You act through dreams. You act through mental vibrations. You are continually vibrating. The moment you don't vibrate you are dead. Death is nothing but nonvibration of a finite unit. That's all death is. S

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

You change the world by changing yourself.

Humans tend to leave it until we're at the edge of the precipice before we take decisions. I'm an optimist by nature – you can't work in the environmental world if you're not. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/62ebf896-ccc9-11e4-b5a5-00144feab7de.html

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

Every act is an expression of one's self.

Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, "I will live better tomorrow."

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.

We're not born creative or destructive. Each one of us has the ability to create or destroy, to leave the world better than we found it, or worse.

The timid die of hunger, the bold of overeating.

That is the real tragedy: poverty and hunger are not as shocking as willful indifference to them.

Art?k yaÅŸamak gerektiÄŸinin bask?s?n? duydum içimde. YaÅŸanacak hayat?m? yaÅŸamal?yd?m. BaÅŸtan aÅŸa?? maskaral?ktan bir ÅŸey olmasa da, gerçek hayat?mla hiç ilgisi bulunmasa da, art?k baÅŸlaman?n ve çaresiz ayaklar?m? harekete geçirmenin zaman? gelmiÅŸti benim için.

If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss. You have to turn into a dragon and stir up a whirlwind, tear the dark, brooding clouds asunder and soar up into the azure-blue sky.

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

Before long, my blood would not permit a halt of even a day or two. Something ceaselessly set me to work; my body could no longer tolerate indolence, but began instantly to thirst for violent action, forever urging me on. Thus for many a day I led a life that others might well dismiss as frenzied obsession.