Quotes About Action

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

To lose weight, I'm going to have to train myself to do what I need to do, not what I feel like doing at the moment.

A félelem ellen harcolni kell, elszántan és cselekv?n. És amikor szembeszáll vele, tapasztalni fogja, hogy meglep?en gyönge ellenfél.

You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small revolution.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

One may do anything; this alone corresponds to the whole breadth life has. But one must be sure not to take it upon oneself out of op-position, out of spite toward hindering circumstances, or, with others in mind, out of some kind of ambition.

Mimari imgelerde eyleme yönelik, eylemsel kar??la?ma an?na yönelik bir ima ya da bir amaç ve "i?lev vaadi" vard?r.

N'écoutant que son courage, qui ne lui disait rien, il se garda bien d'intervenir

Sein halbes Leben hatte Gerhard an dem Widerspruch zwischen Denken und Handeln gelitten. Er hatte sich als Intellektueller gefühlt und versucht, darin eine Auszeichnung zu sehen, die für andauerndes Scheitern entschädigte. Insgeheim war ihm schon lange klar gewesen, dass der Satz "Der Klügere gibt nach" eine Falle darstellte und dass es sich beim Zusatz "bis er der Dumme ist" nicht um einen Witz, sondern um eine logische Konsequenz handelte.

I think it better for me to do A than B, but am led by anger, or some other emotion, to do B instead.

How can anger, or any other emotion or feeling, get someone to go against what they have deliberately resolved on doing? Until we have some systematic way of understanding this, we and the way we act are mysterious to ourselves.

Everything I do, I am responsible for; there is always something else I could have done, some other attitude I could have taken up. To say I am overcome by emotion is to evade the fact that I was the one who acted, who thought at the time that what I was doing was the right thing to do.

If you're the only person left, as long as your hope is committed in action, then hope is alive in the world.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

The question is not "Can you make a difference?" You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of a difference you want to make, during your life on this planet. (Taken from Black and Buddhist, thinking critically and teaching differently in the primary grades by Mary Cowhey)

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

Queen Marie of Romania, who once wrote: 'We are hardly ever arbiters of our own Fate: We must move, do, live, according to our several duties and our own desires and wishes have to be fitted in with what we can do more often than what we desire to do'.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

Something important is always about to happen... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way.

Something important is always about to happen, my dear girl," Lady Danbury said. "And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way.

And all she could think was that her life was passing her by, and if she didn't do something soon, she'd die this way. Alone.

Her hand stirred at his back. "What do I do?" she whispered.