Quotes About Action

la violencia es real y la no violencia no lo es. Pero cuando la no violencia se hace real es una fuerza poderosa.

Ella era una mezcla entre John Rambo y Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning cruzada con Death Wish 4.

If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

It's your attitude. It's not what you say, it's what you do, and it's not what you do, it's what you feel. You have to be connected to yourself, Henry, before you can connect with someone else." She gently touched herself on the chest, above her heart. "It comes from here. If your heart isn't right they'll know it.

Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.

Don't confuse activity with action.

The only thing better than an acknowledgement is action.

Don't wait for the perfect opportunity. Just take an opportunity and make it as perfect as you can.

The people who change the world around them rarely act from a sense of obligation. In fact, the people who act as leaders almost always act from a sense of incredible opportunity. They don't interact with the world around them because they have to. They do so because they want to.

Nonviolent action, on the other hand, requires more patience because the action is less thrilling.

When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.

If the impulse to act correctly did not come from yourself, Confucius said to a follower, what good could it do for you? In his mind, the moral was beautiful, and it should not succumb to rules. Rules diminish its beauty and subtlety, and adherence to them is an admission of one's own moral failure.

Get your sorry ass down to Saint Vincent's, they've got a fast emergency room. Get yourself stitched up and get yourself back here in two fucking hours!

What I do I do because I like to do.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.

but,brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick... more badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies,and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self... But what I do I do because I like to do.

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.