Quotes About Action

This action undertaken to protect repression is observable in analytic treatment as resistance . Resistance presupposes the existence of what I have called anticathexis .

Good days are granted to sensible people, but the grandest of days are enjoyed by those who dare to act unwisely.

thinks. All you do is just decide to do it, and then it's done. Instantly you feel better, like pushing aside a quilt that is too heavy for sleeping. Forgetting is the hard part.

As a tool for dealing with the lows I stick to my mantra. I put one foot in front of the other and take a step. I do something – anything.

Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

For evil to flourish it takes only a few good men to do nothing.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

What do you believe in ? People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.

God! when you think of all the things you could do and yet somehow never do! All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn't come fast enough. Instead of being open, you're closed up tight. Thats's the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.

Et c'était simple de lui dire de s'asseoir ; quand on pense à tout ce qu'on pourrait faire et qu'on ne fait pas ! toutes les occasions qu'on laisse échapper ! on a pas l'idée, pas l'élan ; au lieu d'être ouvert on est fermé ; c'est ça le grand péché : le péché par omission.

No hay nada menos natural que vestirse de mujer; sin duda las ropas masculinas son también artificiales, pero más cómodas y sencillas, están pensadas para favorecer la acción y no para entorpecerla.

We only exist if we act.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our stengths to love and our reason for acting

But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it.

Un existant n'est rien d'autre que ce qu'il fait; le possible ne déborde pas le réel, l'essence ne précède pas l'existence; dans sa pure subjectivité, l'être humain n'est rien. On le mesure à ses actes.

The means, it is said, will be justified by the end; but it is the means which define it, and if it is contradicted at the moment that it is set up, the whole enterprise sinks into absurdity.

Cada hombre decide el lugar que ocupa en el mundo; pero es necesario que ocupe uno, jamás puede retirarse.

El cuerpo de la mujer es uno de los elementos esenciales de la situación que ella ocupa en este mundo, pero tampoco él basta para definirla, ese cuerpo no tiene realidad vivida, sino en la medida en que es asumido por la conciencia a través de sus acciones y el seno de una sociedad

Un giorno un uomo mi ha detto: esiste un solo bene, agire secondo la propria coscienza. Credo che avesse ragione, e che tutti gli sforzi che abbiamo la pretesa di fare per gli altri non servano a niente.

Mi acción no es para otro sino lo que él mismo la hace ser: ¿cómo puedo, pues, saber de antemano lo que hago?; y si no lo sé, ¿cómo puedo proponerme obrar por la humanidad?

One is not the neighbor of anyone; one makes the other a neighbor by making oneself his neighbor through an act