Quotes About Action

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act... if you look at the big conglomerate... it's highly regulated. It's a lot of talk about... internal controls and this and that... so there's a huge mindshift change to get the best of people.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly authorising it.

The great thing about football is that it's so fast, there are so few interruptions.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres. A peça tornou as experiências mais reais e tangíveis, estimulando-os a tomar uma atitude urgente a respeito do que tinham ouvido.

I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you? You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why aren't you standing with us? Why aren't you driven to madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?

dare you to stop counting and start acting. To stop pleasing and start defying. I dare you to trust what you know. The second wind is beyond data.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

The Christian Church is the Body of Christ. Her mission on earth is to spread the Spirit of Christ, which is the creative spirit of wisdom and love; and in so doing bring in the Kingdom of God. Therefore, she can never support or approve an human action, individual or collective, which is hostile to wisdom and love. This is the first and last reason why, if she remains true to her supernatural call, the Church cannot acquiesce to war.

The visionary is a mystic when his vision mediates to him an actuality beyond the reach of the senses. The philosopher is a mystic when he passes beyond thought to the pure apprehension of truth. The active man is a mystic when he knows his actions to be a part of a greater activity.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Non temeremmo di capovolgere la tesi di certo antifascismo per affermare che non fu il fascismo ad agire negativamente sul popolo italiano, sulla «razza italiana», ma viceversa: fu questo popolo, questa «razza» ad agire negativamente sul fascismo, cio

The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities—

Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of the elders, Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle, Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him So doth he flame again toward valiant doing.

Either move or be moved.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Do the uncomfortable thing first.

Don't aim a gun if you have no intention of pulling the trigger.  And if you do pull the trigger, shoot to kill.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present, the awareness of the deadening rot which surrounds and suffocates us, and what we must do to vanquish it.