Quotes About Action

While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet."4

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan.

As William Penn pointed out, "We pass through this world but once, so do now any good you can do, and show now any kindness you can show, for we shall not pass this way again.

True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Hope is not a change method!

To my mind, if the cosmos does not know the significance of life, then it is not God; and if there were no God beyond the cosmos, then all human history would be like dancing to the blind and singing to the deaf; and all noble thought and action would be like kissing a cold statue. I believed in a personal God, not because I wanted to project my personality upon God, but because to deprive Him of this attribute would be making the effect greater than the cause.

There is nothing we need to do that isn't dangerous.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

A man is what he does with his attention.

Poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.

Because, as we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we're not so sure about.

O amor, presidindo a ação, insinuava o prazer e o gozo. E confesso, de bom grado, que me persuadi sem dificuldade de que, sem amor, o prazer, por maior e mais perfeito que seja, fica vulgar, sejamos rei ou vagabundo.

The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.

When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.

Although it was cold out, he opened the window slightly because the room smelled of sleep. The action dislodged something red and black from the frame

It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent by the sheer weight of evil it contains, and who refuse to act because they see no point, and those who choose their battles and fight them to the end, as they understand that to do nothing is definitely worse than to do something and fail. --The Collector

This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves. But we don't lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live and one life to give. There's no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

Suo?avamo se s onima s kojima se moramo suo?iti i do?i ?e trenuci kad budemo morali djelovati za ve?e dobro, ?ak i ako postoji rizik za nas, ali ne trebamo nepotrebno izlagati život opasnosti. Imamo samo jedan život i možemo dati samo jedan život. Nema ništa divljenja vrijedno u tome da ga izgubimo kad je situacija beznadna.