Quotes About Action

Every man of action is basically cheerful and optimistic, because those who don't feel are happy.

Men of action are the unwitting slaves of men of the intellect. Things only acquire value once they are interpreted. Some men, then, create things in order that others, by giving them meaning, make them live.

A arte serve de fuga para a sensilidade que a acção teve de esquecer.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

The truth is that nothing changes anything and what we say or do only brushes the tops of the mountains in whose valleys all things sleep.

Ever since I was a child, the intrinsic futility of all forms of action has been a cherished touchstone for my detachment from everything, including me.

To move is to live, to express oneself is to endure.

Pensar como espiritualistas, agir como materialistas. Não é absurda a doutrina: é, afinal, a doutrina espontânea da humanidade inteira.

Men of action are the involuntary slaves of the men of reason. The worth of things depends on their interpretation. Certain men make things which other men invest with meaning, bringing them to life. To narrate is to create, while to live is merely to be lived.

Anything that involves action, be it war or reasoning, is false; and anything that involves abdication is false too.

Cultivo el odio por la acción como una flor de invernadero. Presumo ante mí mismo de la propia disidencia mía de la vida.

Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased when expressed in words, which transform the thought into the property of others, making it understandable to anyone who can understand it.

To be adept at deluding oneself is the first prerequisite for a statesman. Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

Every effort is a crime, because every gesture is a dead dream.

El afán por comprender, para tantas almas nobles sustituye al de actuar, pertenece a la esfera de la sensibilidad. Sustituir la energía por la inteligencia, romper el eslabón entre la voluntad y la emoción, despojando de intereses todos los gestos de la vida material, es es lo que, una vez logrado, vale más que la vida, tan difícil de poseer por entero y triste de poseer parcialmente.

If men knew how to meditate on the mystery of life, if they knew how to feel the thousand complexities which spy on the soul in every single detail of action, they would never act – they wouldn't even live. They would kill themselves from fright, like those who commit suicide to avoid being guillotined the next day.

Ä°ster savaÅŸmak söz konusu olsun ister ak?l yürütmek, bütün eylemler hatal?d?r; t?pk? insan?n herhangi bir ÅŸey yapmaktan kaç?nmas? gibi. Ah bir bilebilseydim hem hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaman?n, hem de eylemden vazgeçmemenin yolunu! Zaferimi simgeleyen hayal tac?na, yücelenlerin sessizlik asas?na kavuÅŸmuÅŸ olurdum o zaman.

Totul este orgoliu ?i incon?tien??. Totul e dorin?? de agita?ie,de a face lucruri,de a l?sa o urm?.

Tenho que escolher o que detesto — ou o sonho, que a minha inteligência odeia, ou a ação, que a minha sensibilidade repugna; ou a ação, para que não nasci, ou o sonho, para que ninguém nasceu. Resulta que, como detesto ambos, não escolho nenhum; mas, como hei-de, em certa ocasião, ou sonhar ou agir, misturo uma coisa com outra.

and everything is an incurable sickness. The indolence of feeling, the frustration of never knowing how to do anything, the inability to take action...

A veces darle demasiadas vueltas a lo que uno va a hacer nos paraliza. Es como cuando echas a andar: si te pones a mirarte los pies y a decir «ahora, el derecho; luego, el izquierdo, etc.», lo más seguro es que pegues un tropezón o que acabes parándote.

sino libres para responder a lo que nos pasa de tal o cual modo

Aunque no podamos elegir lo que nos pasa, podemos en cambio elegir lo que hacer frente a lo que nos pasa.

A veces darle demasiadas vueltas a lo que uno va a hacer nos paraliza.