Quotes About Action

Freedom aggravates at least as much as it alleviates frustration. Freedom of choice places the whole blame of failure on the shoulders of the individual. And as freedom encourages a multiplicity of attempts, it unavoidably multiplies failure and frustration. Freedom alleviates frustration by making available the palliatives of action, movement, change and protest.

A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action

A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action. It is usually an advantage to a movement, and perhaps a prerequisite for its endurance, that these roles should be played by different men succeeding each other as conditions require. When the same person or persons (or the same type of person) leads a movement from its inception to maturity, it usually ends in disaster.

The man of action saves the movement from the suicidal dissensions and the recklessness of the fanatics. But his appearance usually marks the end of the dynamic phase of the movement. The war with the present is over. The genuine man of action is intent not on renovating the world but on possessing it. Whereas the life breath of the dynamic phase was protest and a desire for drastic change, the final phase is chiefly preoccupied with administering and perpetuating the power won.

For all invented traditions, so far as possible, use history as a legitimator of action and cement of group cohesion.

The difference between 'tradition' and 'custom' in our sense is indeed well illustrated here. 'Custom' is what judges do; 'tradition' (in this instance invented tradition) is the wig, robe and other formal paraphernalia and ritualized practices surrounding their substantial action.

Wisdom was knowing what to do. Skill was the ability to do it.Virtue was doing it. When wisdom didn't subdue anger, anger destroyed everything.

Remind yourself and others that power is in fact infinite—that we can create it where it does not exist. Our final strategy for doing that is simply this: act powerful. When we act powerful we become powerful. That plays out in the poses and stances we strike in civic life, in the art we make together in everyday life, and in the reality of minority rule.

The story of El Centro's creation and flourishing reminds us that civic power may not require a plan—but it does require a purpose.

You must be able to create in the middle of things, or else you will not create. You must learn to take whatever practical and psychological actions are necessary to combat the anticreating forces that surround you and live within you.

if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Meglio accendere la luce che lamentarsi del buio»

Mme Therbouche: Ah oui, qu'avez-vous fait jusqu'à présent pour la morale ? Diderot: (sans vergogne). Mais... j'ai offert mon exemple.

Poate c? tânjesc dup? un miracol… Care anume? S? încetez s? m? v?d acÈ›ionând. S? nu mai fiu actiÅ£a, nici spectatoarea propriei persoane. S? încetez s? m? mai judec, s? m? critic, s?-mi percep impostura. ?i, în cele din urm?, precum un cub de zahar în ap?, s? m? cufund în realitate si s? m? dizolv în ea.

Compiere un'azione notevole è meglio che essere notati».

Kindness needs greater effort than dark thinking.

Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

We are what we do.

The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.

My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.

One of the most obvious explanations is that the leaders undertake many actions that make it possible for them to pretend they are doing something effective to avoid a catastrophe: endless conferences, resolutions, disarmament talks, all give the impression that the problems are recognized and something is being done to resolve them.

The most accurate way to know the future is to create it.

Excelente historia no es la típica historia de amor predecible, me agrado el aire de suspenso y acción que te envuelve de principio a fin me encanto la prosa y la narración se queda en mis favoritos del 2015