Quotes About Action

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received

Qua dogmatist, the Nazi holds faith to be superior to logic. Qua activist, he dismisses logic in favor of action. Qua pragmatist, he is free to endorse contradictions, provided they "work." Qua relativist, he rejects the absolutism of the Law of Identity. And, qua subjectivist, the Nazi simply wipes out logic by giving its name to his random, "Aryan" feelings.

Man, Aristotle held, must first grasp the appropriate facts of reality; on this basis, he can then set the goals and course of his action. Pragmatism represents a total reversal of this progression. For the pragmatist, the order is: man acts; he invents forms of thought to satisfy the needs of his action; reality adapts itself accordingly (except when, inexplicably, it resists). First, action—second, thought—third, reality.

Although rarely given a clear definition, "extremism," in essence, is a term used to condemn those who hold unpopular values intransigently and in action refuse to compromise them; the nature of such action is not delimited by the concept.

The branch of philosophy that studies values is ethics (or morality), which rests on both the above branches—on a view of the world in which man acts, and of man's nature, including his means of knowledge.

emotions differ from thought and action: they are an automatic function. But a man does choose his emotions—ultimately. He does it by virtue of his ability to think, and if necessary to rethink an issue, rejecting an invalid idea at the root of some feeling and replacing it by a new conclusion.

The voluntarist worship of mindless action may be designated by the term "activism." Activism is the form of irrationalism which extols direct physical action, based on will or instinct or faith, while repudiating the intellect and its products, such as abstractions, theory, programs, philosophy. In a very literal sense, activism is irrationalism—in action. "We approach the realities of the world only in strong emotion and in action ... ," says Hitler.

We are what we do with our attention."64

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.

Tell me if anything was ever done... Tell me... Tell me.

Întrucât nu poÈ›i face ce doreÅŸti, doreÅŸte-È›i ceea ce poÈ›i face.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

People of accomplishments rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.

Those who accomplish don't sit around, hoping things will happen to them...

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world. -In Pursuit of Silence

Faith is when God and man choose to walk together in life, to think together, and I'd even say, to laugh together. For the faith life is the happiest life. Faith has no relationship with idleness. It has to do with a man who gets out there and goes for God, and God goes for him.

I think I could, if I only know how to begin.