Quotes About Action

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

In time action becomes habit, and habit can wear reason away, leaving no traces.

Talk is never just words.

Look, if the reason you two aren't speaking doesn't make sense, then the reason you contact him again doesn't have to make sense, either. If nothing makes sense, act accordingly.

What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.

DeVoto himself had clearly concluded, go with your gut and do what you know is right: do whatever you can to make the world a better place for those who come after you.

U-223 turned southwards, and quickly worked up to 16 knots, her thundering diesels matching the heartbeat of all on board. The chase was on.

Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

the humblest man alive must confess, that the reward of a virtuous action, which is the satisfaction that ensues upon it, consists in a certain pleasure he procures to himself by contemplating on his own worth: which pleasure, together with the occasion of it, are as certain signs of pride, as looking pale and trembling at any imminent danger, are the symptoms of fear.

Pour l'instant les mentalités sont encore très réactionnaires et on croit que les hommes sont plus intelligents que les femmes. Mais après tout, c'est peut-être mieux ainsi… Comme ça, nous, les femmes, pouvons agir sans que vous compreniez comment on s'y prend.

That an action would be cowardly is not often found by an agent to be a consideration in its favor, but it could be, and in a counterethical way, ministering to a masochism of shame.

Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

Our actions—whether they make peace or war—reverberate throughout this universe.

Democracy is not a spectator sport