Quotes About Action

Es gibt nichts Gutes außer: Man tut es. There is nothing good unless you do it.

Wie gesagt, das Leben muss noch vor dem Tode erledigt werden.

Don't ask about the consequences if you want to do something. Otherwise you'll never do it.

Terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks; - but it kills, if a man thinks about it.

Cilv?ks var b?t atbild?gs vien?gi par to, ko pats nodar?jis. Un ar? tikai tad, ja tas nav dar?ts p?c pav?les.

Baudi dz?vi un dom? tikai tad, kad tas ir nepieciešams. [..] Kad j?pelna nauda vai gribi tikt dz?v? uz priekšu.

Melanholi?an postaje ?ovek kad razmišlja o životu, a cini?an kad vidi kako ve?ina ljudi postupa.

Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

To Winston Churchill, it was long overdue. In his memoir-like history The World Crisis, 1916–1918, he said of Wilson, "What he did in April, 1917, could have been done in May, 1915. And if done then what abridgment of the slaughter; what sparing of the agony; what ruin, what catastrophes would have been prevented; in how many million homes would an empty chair be occupied today; how different would be the shattered world in which victors and vanquished alike are condemned to live!

It was the judgment of a skilled and experienced man, and although others might have acted differently and perhaps more successfully he ought not, in my opinion, to be blamed." Mersey found Cunard's

Oliver Cromwell in 1653: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing! Depart, I say, and let us have done with you! In the name of God, go!

It is slothful not to compress your thoughts

slothful not to compress your thoughts," he said.

As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH.

All I hope is that it is not too late... I am very much afraid that it is. But we can only do our best, and give the rest of what we have - whatever there may be left to us.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

Just what she needed. She was single and pregnant and her nipples had suddenly become supersensitive $luts looking for action.

Insane was letting an opportunity pass you by. Insane was debating so long over what you wanted that it disappeared.

The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up. They don't believe it is empirically true to the problems of their lives and times.

when people do not have self-esteem they cannot act, they break down.

The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.

The ironic thing about the narrowing-down of neurosis is that the person seeks to avoid death, but he does it by killing off so much of himself and so large a spectrum of his action-world that he is actually isolating and diminishing himself and becomes as though dead.10 There is just no way for the living creature to avoid life and death, and it is probably poetic justice that if he tries too hard to do so he destroys himself.

Only by proper performance in a social context does the individual fashion and renew himself by purposeful action in a world of shared meaning.