Quotes About Action

Critical thinking is not merely a negative activity. Its ultimate purpose is to cut through the crap and develop sound opinions that impel intelligent, effective action.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it.

Dr. Fauci told the president that even with aggressive action across the country, the American death toll could reach 200,000

Persons sin by participating in evil systems when they understand, at least to some degree, that the system displeases God but fail to act responsibly to change things.

My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

The custom of prefixing or appending to historical narratives an estimate of the character and personality of the principal agent is of doubtful advantage at the best of times—it either imparts a specious unity to the action or permits apology or condemnation on moral and emotional grounds.

Were there mistakes? Yes, there were. Only those who don't act don't make mistakes. But to organize well - that's a difficult task.' (Lenin to the All-Russian Conference of Bolsheviks on 24 April, 1917.)

Just laying there in bed is like waiting for death and doing nothing about it.

Don't just crit there siticising.

This is the courageous thing to do: to try to reach the other side before it's too late.

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If policy makers know little about Afghanistan, the public knows even less, and few care about policy failure when the effects are felt only in Afghanistan.

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world

If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep.

Those who do not move, do not feel their chains.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Quien no se mueve no siente sus cadenas

La vida es un pequeño espacio de luz entre dos nostalgias: la de lo que aún no has vivido y la de lo que ya no vas a poder vivir. Y el momento justo de la acción es tan confuso, tan resbaladizo y tan efímero que lo desperdicias mirando con aturdimiento alrededor.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.