Quotes About Action

The ability to choose weakness over power is a capacity for sacrifice, and that sacrifice is love in action. To be weak is to be open to another, to enter relationship. Sacrifice is accepting the weakness of loss, even the loss of life, for the good of others. It is the fountain of love.

I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. Don't know what you want so can't advise you how to get it.

One moment you can say the words 'I am'. And the next, you have no first person, no present tense, and no entitlement, as a subject, to act on verbs of any kind.

I've lost my mind, Alex muttered, grabbing her knives again and stomping back across the kitchen. I woke up this morning a boring little chef on planet earth, and somehow ended up in the Twilight Zone as a third-rate stand-in for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Move children! Vamanos!

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.

Laziness is love's opposite.

no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it.

Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.

A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action

Most people most of the time make decisions with little awareness of what they are doing. They take action with little understanding of their own motives and without beginning to know the ramifications of their choices.

On the contrary, real love often occurs in a context in which the feeling of love is lacking, when we act lovingly despite the fact that we don't feel loving.

Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love

Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.

Almost everything people do is artistic. That doesn't make it art.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

tive um daqueles meus impulsos que nunca chegavam à execução: foi atirar à rua caixão, defunto e tudo.

Não venho restaurá-la. Esquecer é uma necessidade. A vida é uma lousa, em que o destino, para escrever um novo caso, precisa apagar o caso escrito. Obra de lápis e esponja. Não, não venho restaurá-la. Há milhares de ações tão bonitas, ou ainda mais bonitas do que a do Nicolau, e comidas do esquecimento.

Aos quinze anos, há até certa graça em ameaçar muito e não executar nada.

Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.