Quotes About Action

Everyone in our culture desires to some extent to be loving, yet many are not in fact loving. I therefore conclude that the desire to love is not itself love. Love is as love does. 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. No matter how much we may think we are loving, if we are in fact not loving, it is because we have chosen not to love and therefor do not love our good intentions.

And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead.

Dr. Pafko said 'I did some things to solve the problem'?" This

Never bored on a hoverboard.

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

Sooner or later usually means too late

Erfolg hat drei Buchstaben: TUN!

He remarked as much to Charlotte on his return, and she was inclined to agree with him. 'As life draws us along,' she replied, 'we think we are acting of our own volition, ourselves choosing what we shall do and what we shall enjoy; but when we look more closely we see they are only the intentions and inclinations of the age which we are being compelled to comply with.

The time for useful work flies fast. Why talk of being in the humor? Who hesitates will never be.

Man muss immer tun, was man nicht lassen kann.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

What is destructible Is but a parable; What fails ineluctably, The undeclarable, Here it was seen, Here it was action; The Eternal-Feminine Lures to perfection.

Spirit: In floods of being, in action's storm, Up and down I wave, To and fro I flee, Birth and the grave, An infinite sea, A changeful weaving, An ardent living; The ringing loom of Time is my care, And I weave God's living garment there

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

You know what's wanted here, We need strong ale to appear: So brew me a barrel right away! Tomorrow won't do what's undone today,

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Action has magic, grace, and power in it.

He does not always choose the best Who muses long.

what is not started today is never finished tomorrow

Actuar es fácil, pensar es difícil; actuar según se piensa es aún más difícil

Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided.

In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this, little can be achieved, either in life or in knowledge.