Quotes About Action

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.

Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come. Well don't waste your time waiting.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

There was one thing the Star Trek movies did well, and that's the action sequences always had something going on and were character motivated.

May this morning prayer give me the energy to act at all times this day with love and kindness. May I treat each person and each living being as a brother or sister, as a member of your sacred family.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

If you think of ADD as a basic problem with inhibition, it helps explain how ADD people get angry quicker. They don't inhibit their impulses as well as other people. They lack the little pause between impulse and action that allows most people to be able to stop and think. Treatment helps with that but it doesn't cure it completely.

the person with ADD seldom feels bored. This is because the millisecond he senses boredom, he swings into action and finds something new; he changes the channel.