Quotes About Action

Change will not take place without political participation.

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Therefore learn how to see and not to gape. To act instead of talking all day long. The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don't rejoice too soon at your escape - The womb he crawled from is still going strong.

Sitting and sedition don't mix.

E voi, imparate che occorre vedere e non guardare in aria; occorre agire e non parlare. Questo mostro stava, una volta, per governare il mondo! Il popolo lo spensero, ma ora non cantiamo vittoria troppo presto: il grembo da cui nacque è ancora fecondo.

Das Edle ist wie eine Glocke, schlägt man sie, so tönt sie, schlägt man sie nicht, so tönt sie nicht.

If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could act instead of talking, We wouldn't always end up on our arse. This was the thing that nearly had us mastered; Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men! Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard, The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none more dangerous than the attempt to integrate the whole of society in one vast, permanent action group.

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Natural law is essentially unreasoning and unmoral: gigantic forces clash around us on every side unintelligent, and unvarying in their action. With equal impassiveness these blind forces produce vast benefits and work vast catastrophes. The benefits are ours, if we are able to grasp them; but nature troubles itself not, whether we take them or leave them alone.

Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

Men are apt to turn aside somewhat impatiently from an argument about the Nature and Existence of the Deity, because they consider that the question is a metaphysical one which leads nowhere; a problem the resolution of which is beyond our faculties, and the study of which is at once useless and dangerous; they forget that action is ruled by thought, and that our ideas about God are therefore of vast practical importance.

Look," she said, smiling out at the trees, the sky, and the birds flying by. "That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

What's gotten into him?" "Five-Thirty," I called back. "I didn't ask the time," she called. "Get that dog out of there, and fill that hole in.

Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done.

Folks keep forgetting that wishing don't make nothing so, but prayer sometimes do.

We all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of courage so that we can begin to speak. There are many problems to address, and we cannot avoid them indefinitely. We cannot continue to be silent. We must begin to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to effective action. Change is possible.

The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

if something goes wrong in his environment, a man tends to look outside himself first for the cause of the problem. According to research, this tendency is based partly on the male biological tendency to take action (versus introspection) and partly on the male ego, which encourages him to blame others and not take responsibility for his actions. Conversely, if something goes wrong in her environment, a woman will tend to look inside herself for the cause of the problem.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Use Error is defined as a "user action or lack of user action while using the medical device that leads to a different result than that intended by the manufacturer or expected by the user

Life is full of different risks. And I think that, when you think about the things that you will regret when you're 80, they're almost always the things that you did not do. They're acts of omission.

All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.