Quotes About Action

In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists.

The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.

Motion however will not help unless we have things moving.

How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.

We can check on what people say by seeing what they do.

Reflection matters because it is continuous with practice. How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.

O amor pode ser ordenado, pois, essencialmente, não é uma emoção, mas uma decisão de querer que leva à ação. (p.228)

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction.' Even

in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

The past is what we make of it, if we know what's is good for us.

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

His accountant, Itzhak Stern, who Schindler protected, consoled him by quoting the Jewish Talmud: 'He who saves one life, saves the World entire.' It said to me then, and still says to me today, that even when we can't do everything, we can still do something.

Don't you think I haven't already?' Miriam said wearily. 'I think about it every day, and always I ask myself what Jehoshua would have done . . .

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased.