Quotes About Action

The principle of moral risk suggests that it is more rational to aim for a smaller good which seems more probable of attainment than to aim for a larger one which seems less, when the two courses of action have equal probable goodness. Other things being equal, 'a high weight and the absence of risk increase pro tanto the desirability of the action to which they refer'.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.

There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say 'what happened?

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the present misery, and is therefore the enemy of his own children. There is no such thing as being neutral: we must either help or hinder.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

The Romans certainly asked their gods to look favourably upon them, but above all to reassure them in their plans and back them in their actions.

The best way to predict the future," observes magician Gregory Wilson, "is to influence it."17

boots on. We're goin' after the devils.

They did it," the man said.

to flee the shooting. After

Believing the words of one's mate while ignoring the actions can lead to serious distortions of reality.

If we go into the visit with both parties knowing what's going on, then we can spend the visit talking about what we do about it.

That experience allowed me to see this therapeutic principle in action," Stanton said. "You just can't organize yourself without a connection to another human being, and you can't make that connection if you embalm yourself with drugs.

May this not be a moment, but a movement.

he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer;

A sound by itself is a passive, not an active, thing, neither pleasant nor unpleasant. So to make it unpleasant, you have to go out and, in a sense, do something to it.

Y Erdosain remiró aquel rostro casi redondo, con laxitud de paz, y en la que sólo denunciaba al hombre de acción de chispa burlona, movediza, en el fondo de los ojos, y ese movimiento de levantar una ceja más que otra al escuchar al que hablaba. Erdosain distinguió a un costado, entre el saco y la camisa de seda que usaba el Rufián, el cabo negro de un revólver. Indudablemente, en la vida, los rostros significan poca cosa.

Rajá turrito, rajá

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If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late.

Review the past, but let it not rule you. Always ACT in the present with thought of the future, but do not let fear of the future bind you. Welcome the destiny that awaits you!