Quotes About Action

Remember what Confucius say: 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Evan needed to get food, and then he had people to kill.

God acts toward his people, as much as possible, but since he is a God of persuasion rather than coercion, God also allows his people to act on him and to thereby condition the form his self-revelation takes, as much as this is necessary to remain in solidarity with, and to continue to work through, his fallen and culturally conditioned people.

At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings.

Knowing that something is true does not in and of itself ensure that this truth will make a significant difference in our lives. The

Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. But everythign has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

What dream, what hope, what despair drives us to the things we do, just to desert us when the deed is done? What hollow things are they, motive and reason, born at night to fade so quickly in the sunlight of consequence? What we do in life lives on inside us, long after ambition and fear lie frosted and opaqued on forgotten shores. What we do in life, more than what we think or say, is what we are.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors—the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

Are we ever justified in what we do? That question ruined my sleep for a long time after I saw the tortured little mouse. When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end.

Some of the worst things were caused by people who tried to change things.

L'unico momento in cui smetteva di odiarsi era quando il rischio era talmente grande da costringerlo ad agire senza pensare e senza provare nessuna emozione.

Sometimes, the bravest thing we ever do is the thing we never get to do. And sometimes the spark that ignites a brother's love, in men not born brothers, is nothing more than a pure intention.

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action.

Ogni volta che agiamo, pur con le migliori intenzioni, ogni volta che interferiamo con le cose del mondo, rischiamo di provocare un disastro che forse non dipende da noi, ma che non si verificherebbe senza il nostro intervento.

E' un bene conoscere cosa cè di sbagliato al mondo, ma è altrettanto importante sapere che per quanto il mondo sia sbagliato tu non puoi cambiarlo, ma vorrei credere che se agiamo nel modo giusto tutto può cambiare in meglio.

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things.