Quotes About Action

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Now is no time to delay. This is the edge of action.

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Pues veo que son efectivos, sobre todo, los hechos llevados a cabo por los consejos de los que tienen experiencia.

Words scare not him who blenches not at deeds.

El que no tiene temor ante los hechos tampoco tiene miedo a la palabra.

Twere best, if anything is best in evil times. What's soonest done, is best, when all is ill.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

To dare is to momentarily lose one's footing. But not to dare is to lose one's self.

Do it or don't do it — you will regret both.

I see it perfectly; there are two possible situations - once can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action....The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented--and then do nothing.

It is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do.

by not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture…For if I have ventured amiss – very well, then life helps me by its punishment. But if I have not ventured at all – who then helps me?

A choice that is not used is worse than nothing; it is a snare in which a person has trapped himself as a slave who did not become free

See karma, make dharma

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.