Quotes About Action

Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters? Old person worry: What if everything I do does?

Get on with the business of living," Ernest told me. "You don't have any other choice.

When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem... your only option is to act swiftly, some might even say irrationally. Removing the most dangerous elements first... and methodically attacking each subsequent challenge in a separate, but deliberate manner.

There is a compound of grace in contentment: there is faith, and there is humility, and love, and there is patience, and there is wisdom, and there is hope; almost all graces are compounded. [...] In one action that you do you may exercise one grace especially, but in contentment you exercise a great many graces at once.

The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.

By the principle of asceticism I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question; but in an inverse manner: approving of actions in as far as they tend to diminish his happiness; disapproving of them in as far as they tend to augment it.

We don't pass by on the other side.

My most favorite weapon is a chainsaw!

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

There would be hell to pay (or purgatory to rent, at a minimum) if I did not act fast.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

But it was time to stop forgetting the world–and time to start changing it.

I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

to taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this "loss aversion." Research in cognitive

it seems like there are ten lousy situations you can't do anything about, for every one where you can make a difference, it's all about putting your right foot forward, and just taking those small steps.

Making decisions was for him an adaptive reflex, a coping mechanism that pressure only honed and energized, and he'd reacted to the news from Brazil as he would to any emergency, gathering whatever information was available, then digesting as much of it as circumstances allowed before settling upon a logical and systematic plan of action.

Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because He does not act as we think He should, we conclude He cannot act as we think He would. GOD

For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.

And if God permits it, it is because the ungodly action is part of God's plan for him. No one can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it (see Lamentations 3:37).

Second, we should not allow the doctrine of God's sovereignty to cause us to respond passively to the actions of other people that affect us. We should take all reasonable steps within the will of God to protect and advance our situation.