Quotes About Action

Wasn't it evil to wish without moving—or to move without aim?

They never spoke of what they wished they might do in the future, they never wondered whether some mysterious omnipotence had favored them with some unknowable talent to achieve the things they wanted --- they spoke of what they would do.

The men who now sat in front of his desk had been taught that the law of causality was a superstition and that one had to deal with the situation of the moment without considering its cause.

one moves step by step and one must keep moving.

Sabe que ha de actuar de un modo adecuado. Equivocarse en la acción significa peligro para su vida; equivocarse en la persona, ser malo, significa no estar en condiciones para la existencia.

El hombre recibe un cuerpo, pero no el sustento para el mismo. Se le otorga una mente, pero no el contenido de la misma. Para vivir ha de actuar, pero antes de poder hacerlo debe saber la naturaleza y el proposito de su acción. No puede conseguir alimento sin conocimiento del mismo ni del modo de obtenerlo.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

The action of naming an issue instead of evading it, was so unlike the usual behavior of all the men he knew, it was such a sudden, startling relief...

that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That

I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.

Un ser de conciencia volitiva no puede seguir una conducta automática. Necesita un código de valores para guiar sus acciones. El valor hay que ganarlo y conservarlo; la virtud es la acción por la que se gana y se conserva aquél. El valor presupone una respuesta a la pregunta: ¿Valor para quién y para qué? El valor presupone una norma, un propósito y la necesidad de actuar frente a una alternativa. Donde no hay alternativas no son posibles los valores.

Todo organismo viviente se enfrenta a una alternativa constante: la de la vida o la muerte. La vida es un proceso de acción, autosustentadora y autogenerada. Si un organismo falla en la misma, muere; sus elementos químicos perduran, pero su vida termina. Es sólo el concepto de vida el que hace posible el concepto de valor. Sólo para un ser viviente las cosas pueden resultar buenas o malas.

Usted no quiere que piense. Cuando fuerza a un hombre a actuar contra su placer y a su juicio, es su pensamiento el que desea suprimir. Anhela convertirlo en un robot. Pues bien, obraré de acuerdo con esto.

Obrando con razón y justicia, sólo se podía llegar a un resultado.

were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man's foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...

One man can stop the motor of the world.

From the evolutionary perspective, revenge is retaliation that is intended either to destroy an enemy or to foster deterrence against him, as well as against third parties. This, of course, applies to non-physical and non-violent, as well as to physical and violent, action.

At that time, she had worn the scarf as a testament to her faith. Her decision was a voluntary act. When the revolution forced the scarf on others, her action became meaningless.

Switzerland had somehow become a bywordfor Western laxity: any program or action that was deemed un- Islamic was reproached with a mocking reminder that Iran was by no means Switzerland.

Was it any consolation, and did we even wish to remember, that what he did to us was what we allowed him to do?

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

Change we need

But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you're willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.