Quotes About Action

Let me pass this way but once and do what good I can, I shall not pass this way again.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

We're in the most powerful nation in the history of mankind so it's incumbent upon us to do everything we can to anybody that's in a persecuted, genocidal position anywhere in the world.

Fighting is a way to force something to happen.

Fighting is a way to feel, an anti–video game, a way to force some-thing to happen. That's what brought me back to it, because when I've fought someone, I know something has happened. How many days of your life pass you by that you could take or leave? When nothing really happened?

This was the feeling I was after. My adrenal glands were triggered and I was fully engaged in the moment: Someone was trying to kill me. The door opened on a new world.

Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease

Golf is played with the arms

What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.

Mere belief cannot create anything in life, only action can, and it is here that we must begin our spiritual development: through conscious action, within. This leads us to the very meaning of the word Gnosis: personal knowledge acquired through experience. The true Gnostic does not believe, he knows because he has experienced it.

We decide, on issues large and small, whether we will be bystanders or upstanders.

People who care, act, and refuse to give up may not change THE world, but they can change many individual worlds.

If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will."[4]

We can't only try diplomacy after countries have done what we want.

Whenever my own thoughts about the state of the world headed toward a similarly bleak impasse, I would brainstorm with my team about how we might 'shrink the change' we hoped to see (p. 517).

Samantha Power

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you wont be punished

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.

As the ancientsSay wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,And look before you ere you leap;For as you sow, ye are like to reap.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.