Quotes About Action

It isn't sufficient just to want-you've got to ask yourself what you're going to do to get the things you want.

I say that the delivery of needed supplies to Britain is imperative. I say that this can be done; it must be done; and it will be done… The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Above all, try something.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

now whipped a sandwich onto the kitchen

Nobody does good to man with impunity.

Emotions evolved, in short, for their capacity to induce adaptive reactions to danger, competition, mating opportunities, and so on. Emotions are action-prone. Our species shares many emotions with the other primates because we rely on approximately the same behavioral repertoire.

Taken by themselves, emotions are pretty useless. Simply being fearful doesn't do an organism any good. But if a fearful state prompts an organism to flee, hide, or counterattack, it may well save its life. Emotions evolve, in short, for their capacity to induce adaptive reactions to danger, competition, mating opportunities, and so on. Emotions are action-prone.

We have sown the wind; he is the hurricane

Neither stubborn courage nor fine slogans are enough.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

The knowledge scholars possess causes them to act. Eventually, they will be sought after by the people, but as true scholars, they will flee from all the worldly demands made on them. High praise is due to the man who speaks and knows, who listens and retains, who retains and acts.

Knowledge without action is like a bow without a string." A relationship as close as blood relationship must be established between knowledge and action. Knowledge is acquired, because it is a ladder leading up to action, which is true action only if it leads to God.

1. "Knowledge is that through whose existence he in whom it subsists is enabled to act in an orderly fashion and to act well."126 2. "Knowledge is an attribute (sifah) whose existence does not make it impossible for him who is alive and capable (al-hayy al-qâdir) to act well."127 Cf. K-1. 3. "Knowledge is the attribute (wasf ) that enables him who possesses this attribute to act in an orderly fashion."128

In the preceding century, the philosopher al-Kindi had defined wisdom as the "the excellence of the (rational) power, the knowledge of the universals in their realities, and the employment (in action) of the realities that must be employed.

There is no act of love toward one's neighbor that falls into the void. Just because the act was realized blindly, it must appear somewhere as effect. Somewhere,

The deeds of our hearts too...are not without their progeny. [Jeremiah, to Ebed-melech]

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

When we do the work of translating and simplifying complex terminology, we allow people to see their agency in the process—to take responsibility for joining and shaping the conversation and for turning words into action.

To see people who will notice a need in the world and do something about it [...] Those are my heroes.

But even the best luck is no good until it's used, and we must find the right way to use it.

Mais parce que je ne pense pas, dit Néron en se relevant. -Et qu'est-ce que tu fais alors? -Je gouverne.