Quotes About Action

It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.

Làm gì có vi?c s? m?nh ?ã ??nh s?n, n?u th? ta c? tiêu c?c, b?t ??ng m?c cho s? ph?n run r?i hay sao?

What life is cannot be photographed or weighed for it is not a substance but an action, and what it does is a better way to know life than to classify its materials. It will do with a marshmallow, for example, about what the campfire on a moonlit night will do.

If it is justifiable, and even useful and necessary, to turn back to study our past, it is only in order to establish what we have been and what we must no longer be, what we have believed and thought and what we must no longer believe or think, what we have done and what we must do nevermore.

We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love.

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

Morals, as I conceive them, are concerned with ends of action: and principally with ultimate ends of action. An end of action, in so far as it is ultimate, is one which is pursued for itself alone, and not as a means to some other end. Of course an end may be, and constantly is, both ultimate and contributory. It is sought for on its own account, and also as an instrument for procuring something else. It is mainly in the first of these capacities, however, that it concerns morality.

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

We may note within ourselves many a long struggle the end of which is one of our own actions--struggles which are, as it were, the reverse side of humanity. This reverse side belongs to God; the obverse side to men.

"Women," she said, with tears in her eyes, "can only love; men act; they have a thousand ways in which they are bound to act. But we can only think, and pray, and worship."

I've always been like that—if I'm not pushed to the brink, I won't move.

As soon as she gets an idea in her head she does it, you know? I just stand back in amazement at her way of making things happen.

We dont need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

A lot of people think that scuttling around stencilling images onto buildings in the middle of the night is the action of a sad, frustrated individual who can't get attention or recognition any other way. They might be right, but I've done gallery shows and, if you've been hitting on people with all sorts of images in all sorts of places, they're a real step backwards, painting the streets means becoming an actual part of the city. It's not a spectator sport.

Sometimes the right thing to do... is the wrong thing.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Today, together, we can finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.