Quotes About Action

I stood for a moment, letting my ears do the walking, and then I gave the bell a thorough ring and waited thirty thoughtful seconds before ringing it again. And that, let me assure you, is not a waste of time. Public institutions throughout the fifty states provide food and clothing and shelter for lads who don't ring the bell first.

The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Nor all your piety and wit Can call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

if you intend to try and work, not to sit under the Tree of Idleness.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Why don't you light that candle ?

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.