Quotes on Action

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.