Quotes About Action

This is it! Stay low, don't bunch up, and run like hell!

I hope you'll listen to what they have to say and think about how you can make a difference for the future. Because we're all together on this island we call Earth, and we're the only ones who can save it. Thank you!

They only see us when we do something they don't want us to do

I stared at Emily Reed as the truck churned slowly toward the center of the field. She had her back to me now, talking to the camera. Reporting on the sudden, alarming interruption to the most-watched sporting event in America. The interruption she herself had planned. I had to do something. Tell someone. Stop her. The Black Widow was right there, in the lower section of the stadium, not a hundred feet from me!

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. T. S. Eliot

Si alguien te robara el dinero como te roban el tiempo, pondrías el grito en el cielo, lo perseguirías y entablarías una acción judicial contra él. El dinero puede reemplazarse pero el tiempo no. Tontos que somos, dejamos que nos roben este artículo tan preciado y tan único, y no hacemos nada para evitarlo.

Things happened, as soon as they had they were in the past, once they were, there was nothing you could do. Days and nights followed in a seamless phantasmagoria of action and inaction, of weariness, privation, duty, routine and waiting, always so much waiting. What had happened yesterday might have been in another life, as remote from today as the unknowable events of tomorrow.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

As Cyprian puts it near the start of his treatise, "We know virtues by their practice rather than through boasting of them."71 If patience is not good in the lived experience of humans, it isn't worth talking about.72

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

It is not enough to feel reverence; one must act reverently.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.

But to doubt God and to question His motives causes our faith to shrink until literally we cease to be believers—we are believers in name, but not in practice or in action.

If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.

None of us—not you, not me—is here to stick a toe in the water. We're here to make waves.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

There is no practical rationality then without the virtues of character. The vicious argue unsoundly from false premises about the good, while the akratic ignores the sound arguments available to him. Only the virtuous are able to argue soundly to those conclusions which are their actions […]

I have discovered that coming up with an interesting plan (and committing to making it happen) is virtually all you need to do to guarantee an interesting, challenging and rewarding experience.

Thankfully there is a tiny sliver of my brain that fights back. Without it I would never do anything interesting.