Quotes About Action

Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.

We sleep and nap in bed--my two piled up mattresses on the bare wooden floor. We are silent, dreamy. She surveys my photographs crowded on the wall. I have no particular subject, no special theme. The Brooklyn Bridge at dawn will do, tugs and their milky wake, elms fading in the fading light, my postman and his green mailbag. It's the shooting the excites me. Printing is the fatiguing task after the action, the dressing of the game after the hunt.

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

From word to deed is a great space.

Si actuas como si supieras lo que estas haciendo, puedes hacer lo que quieras.

Donde no puedas amar, no te demores

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Wahrheit ist ein Wort des Glaubens. Niemand vermag grausamer zu sein, als jene, die im Namen der Wahrheit handeln. Sie handeln auch im Namen der Gerechtigkeit.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects .

The doer alone learneth.

Thinking evil is making evil.

man's being is essentially his own deed .

Will it, and set to work briskly.