Quotes About Action

don't waste your precious life only dreaming, but not mental mapping

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

I ain't got time to bleed

I'm not brave, I'm just not scared. There's a difference. Do you know what's brave? When you're scared to do something, but you do it anyway.

How you find love means nothing. It's what you do with it when you see it that does.

Are we all ready to make a change, like we've been saying we are? Or are we expecting life to do it for us?

After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.

The important thing is that we are participating-whether it's by running, voting, or supporting (financially or otherwise) candidates who make a difference to women. Don't leave shit up to others, 'cause that's how we get fucked over.

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

Human existence begins when the lack of fixation of action by instincts exceeds a certain point; when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by hereditarily given mechanisms. In other words, human existence and freedom are from the beginning inseparable. Freedom is here used not in its positive sense of freedom to but in its negative sense of freedom from, namely freedom from instinctual determination of his actions.

Will is based on activity, whim on passivity.

Davran??? yönlendiren itici güçleri bilirsek, yaln?zca ÅŸimdiki zamanda gerçekleÅŸtirilen davran??? anlamakla kalmay?z, bir kiÅŸinin deÄŸiÅŸtirilmiÅŸ koÅŸullar alt?nda nas?l davranabileceÄŸi konusunda da akla uygun varsay?mlarda bulunabiliriz.

the concept of the halakhah31 that man must act not only according to general principles of justice, truth, and love, but that every act of life be "sanctified," becoming imbued with a religious spirit. "Right action" refers to everything: to the prayer in the morning, to the benediction over food, to the sight of the ocean and of the first flower of the season, to helping the poor, to visiting the sick, to not making a man ashamed in the presence of others.

Invidia, gelosia, ambizione, bramosia, sono passioni; l'amore è un'azione, un potere umano che può essere praticato solo in libertà, e non è la conseguenza si una costrizione.

the understanding of the reasons for the totalitarian flight from freedom is a premise for any action which aims at the victory over the totalitarian forces.

At?l, hareketsiz duran yaÅŸam ölmeye eÄŸilimlidir; eÄŸer at?ll?k eksiksizse, ölüm gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ demektir.

As long as one was an integral part of that world, unaware of the possibilities and responsibilities of individual action, one did not need to be afraid of it. When one has become an individual , one stands alone and faces the world in all its perilous and overpowering aspects.

Fantazie a sny jsou za?átkem mnoha skutk? a nic by nebylo horÅ¡í než je podce?ovat a snícímu brát odvahu k nim. Jde o to, jaký druh fantazií máme - zda nás vedou vpÃ…â"¢ed, anebo zda nás drží v Ã…â"¢etÄ›zech neproduktivnosti.

ÇoÄŸu insan Kafka'n?n ihtiyar?na benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeÅŸil ???k yakmad??? sürece beklerler de beklerler.

Tarih hiçbir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ve hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaz. Bir ÅŸey olan ve yapan, insand?r.

Er steckte den Zwanzigmarkschein ein. Jetzt saß die Mutter im Zug, und bald musste sie den anderen Zwanzigmarkschein finden, den er ihr in die Handtasche gelegt hatte. Mathematisch gesehen war das Ergebnis gleich Null. Denn nun besaßen beide dieselbe Summe wie vorher. Aber gute Taten lassen sich nicht stornieren. Die moralische Gleichung verläuft anders als die arithmetische.

Vom Mut Ich möchte an dieser Stelle ein bisschen über den Mut reden. Anton hat eben einem Jungen, der größer ist als er, zwei Ohrfeigen gegeben. Und da könnte man ja nun meinen, Anton habe Mut bewiesen. Es war aber gar nicht Mut, es war Wut. Und das ist ein kleiner Unterschied, nicht nur im Anfangsbuchstaben. Mut kann man nur haben, während man kaltes Blut hat. [...] Mut beweist man nicht mit der Faust allein, man braucht den Kopf dazu.