Quotes About Action

We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is wake up and change.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

Take stock of who we are and what we have and then use it for good.

That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

I want to know what to do," he hears himself say, and, like the decision to write to the co-pilot's wife, the statement is a relief. He wants to know what to do. She taps the center of his hand. "That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

People are afraid of anything they don't understand. When they understand, when they know the truth, they can do something about it.

I wasn't frightened. I was just afraid." Her aunt smiled. "Is there a difference?" "Oh yes," Eleanor said. "When you're frightened you run away. When you're afraid you keep on doing what you're supposed to do.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on. Use your time to bathe yourself in that gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession… What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

At least half of what we call hope, I believe, is simply the sense that something can be done. Once,

To understand her," I say, "you have to understand what she was trying to do. Dora was ... a verb.

Oh que ça m'énerve, ça! Bien sûr, c'est plus facile de se dire qu'on est nul et ne rien faire! Bien sûr! C'est une fatalité! C'est si simple de penser qu'on est maudit! Alors quoi? Quels sont tes projects maintenant?

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Let parents, therefore, not scruple to use the power God and Nature have put into their hands for the advantage of their offspring. Let them not fear to impress them with prejudices for whatever is fair and honorable in action — whatever is useful and important in systematic truth. Let such prejudices be wrought into the very texture of the soul.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.' Amelia Earhart

Collective action means that when someone does something small or personal, their actions can change history too.

From 1949 onward, any discussion of strike action was considered an "antidemocratic" crime against the state, and workers could be expelled from the party even for suggesting

Artists and scientists are activists. They look at the world as changeable and they look upon themselves as instruments for change. They understand that the slice of world they occupy is only a fragment but that the fragment is intrinsically connected to the whole. They know that action matters.

There is no object that we see, no action that we do, no good that we enjoy, no evil that we feel of fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. Mahatma Gandhi

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