Quotes About Action

that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Bir ÅŸey doÄŸruysa, onu yapman?n yolu bulunur; yok yanl??sa, onsuz yapman?n yolu da bulunur. Ä°yi bir insan çaresini bulacakt?r.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

But is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming sorrow—the surest antidote for despair?

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.

If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

Der Mann hat einen grossen Geist Und ist so klein von Taten!

Better a day too early than a day too late

Ya no me atrevo a hacer nada, porque tengo miedo de que esté prohibido".

If people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!

Hoe heerlijk is het, dat niemand een minuut hoeft te wachten met te beginnen de wereld langzaam te doen veranderen''.

You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don't know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

The great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote, "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. / I awoke and saw that life was service. / I acted and behold, service was joy.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

If you want to have loving feelings today, do loving things: Flirt with everyone, especially old people and yourself. Pick up some litter in your neighborhood, even though there will be more by Sunday. Get your work done, one inadequate sentence and paragraph at a time. Then go through your draft and take out all the lies and boring parts. Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe.....Those are the things I am going to do today.

If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do—you can either type or kill yourself.

We are going to save the world by repeatedly busting the dread that looms over us like a blimp, by pushing back our sleeves and distracting it with the next right thing and good works.

Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.