Quotes About Action

Men who are loudly charged with repression before they have done anything to substantiate the charge are apt to proceed to substantiate it.

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.

Tyrannies are perpetuated by diffident men who do not possess the courage to act out their beliefs.

It is clear that the disagreement between the authorities completely paralyzed action. Not

Subjective feelings are largely irrelevant to the moral issue at hand so long as they are not transformed into action.

I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...

We believe that we're in control of our lives. But in reality we can only seize opportunities.

No one acts altruistically without regard to the costs.

En la vida, los destinos están casi siempre separados: quienes comprenden no son los ejecutores, y quienes actúan no comprenden.

Y es que en la Tierra, el ejemplo es la ligazón más fuerte entre los hombres; toda acción despierta en los demás la voluntad de actuar con rectitud, de salir del sopor de la somnolencia y de llenar las horas de actividad.

Porque el que no actúa también hace algo que lo convierte en culpable en la Tierra...

no estoy cansado. Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

I have often asked myself, I have wondered to the point of madness, why a moment's foolish action on a single occasion should matter. But we cannot shake doff what we so vaguely call conscience

Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

There are three kinds of people," he wrote later, "those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Therefore I cannot but see and feel that time is passing, and I with it, and yet I would not like to go without performing some great action to serve as a monument to my name. What is lost today will not be found tomorrow and I have done nothing so far to cover myself with glory.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." —Earl Nightingale

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

I've come to realize that love has nothing to do with "never having to say you're sorry." Love is an action that does what's best for the other person.

It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.

He blinked at her visible honesty, at the earnestness on her face, and something inside him turned, knowing that he was the one responsible for the release of her tension. He'd made her feel better without even trying. What a guy. Then she reached into the tub, grabbed the gun, and shot him in the heart.