Quotes About Action

The irony is that the more you try to avoid karma, the more it multiplies!

Karma is not a doctrine. You do not get any brownie points for subscribing to it. You do not get any negative marks for disbelieving it. Karma is not a creed, a scripture, an ideology, a philosophy, or a theory. It is simply the way things are. It is an existential mechanism. Like the sun, it operates whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you pay obeisance to it or ignore it. It is not looking for a fan club.

unless we do the right things, the right things will not happen to us:

Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you. Principles and philosophies are only of social consequence. It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own. One hundred percent your own.

We act in order to express our fulfillment, not to acquire it.

Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you really want it, you take it.

Where the really sincere white people have got to do their "proving" of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is—and that's in their own home communities; America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where the sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. Aside

If something is yours by right, then fight for it or shut up.

America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.

By Any Means Necessary; The Chickens Come Home To Roost.

only when mankind would submit to the One God who created all—only then would mankind even approach the "peace" of which so much talk could be heard…but toward which so little action was seen. I

I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.

So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

So early in life, I learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise

For those she liked she did things; to those she didn't like she did other things.

Niemand wird müde, seinen Nutzen zu suchen; Nutzen aber gewährt eine naturgemäße Tätigkeit. Werde also nicht müde, deinen Nutzen zu suchen, indem du anderen Nutzen gewährst!

Just as CEOs can't look away when social issues clash with their values, employees can't pretend that whatever its leadership decides to do is above their pay grade. If leadership won't act on a company's values, employees at every level need to hold them accountable.

You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur

Parce que c'est pendant qu'on calcule, qu'on analyse les pour et les contre, que la vie passe et qu'il ne se passe rien.

Anytime you are tempted to resort to violence, this is the bottom line: if you ain't ready to die for it or kill for it, don't do it.

Parece que en esto radicaría la supuesta magia que obra un buen poema: ideas, recuerdos y todos los detalles de un escenario presente y la acción que lo ocupa tienen igual rango y el mismo peso; infundido de una fuerza verbal animadora (pero vaga), el mundo irradia particularidad.

Sometimes, said Miss Phillips, the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.