Quotes About Action

Nonlinearities are important not only because they confound our expectations about the relationship between action and response. They are even more important because they change the relative strengths of feedback loops. They can flip a system from one mode of behavior to another.

In other words, if you see a behavior that persists over time, there is likely a mechanism creating that consistent behavior.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

But you must give people time. The world can't be remade in a day." "The world won't ever be remade, if no one tries to remake it. Change must begin somewhere.

Worry never helped anything, so why turn to it during times of need? It won't nurture or heal you—quite the opposite, actually. It's so much better to put the effort into something creative as a way to quietly meditate through positive action. Create, create, create!

Remember that when your life doesn't look the way you want it to, you have the power to change that. You have the ability to shape and create your reality, because what you do causes a ripple effect of change across the Universe. Whether or not you realize it, the Universe is reacting to every single step you take. It's viewed as a very deliberate and conscious action on your part. Ask

Democracy is not something we have, it's something we do.

I would rather you burned this book than used the reading of it as an excuse to not make some fresh trouble today

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

you want something, you go and get it. If you don't want that thing, you let it go and stop brooding.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Be careful that you do not turn these first steps into merely a more elaborate way of playing the old game of day-dreaming with yourself. Do something every day towards your intention, however remote your goal may have to be.

Confident, steady, freely-flowing action is what we need. Then safe delight begins. The mind, cleared of its doubts, begins to expand and enjoy its own activity; the rewards of satisfactory action begin to show themselves.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

A dim notion was growing up in her mind that the fact that she had never done a thing was no proof that she couldn't.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

I believe some people -- lots of people -- pray to the witness of their lives through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?