Action Quotes - Actions are the first tragedy in life,
words are the second
“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they
sometimes could be useful.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness
for responsibility.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Either get out of bed or else take your clothes
off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.”
― Janet Evanovich
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can
pretend.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the
way you'd like to act.”
― Bob Dylan
“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the
second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No
Importance / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé
“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for
the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with
which it is performed.”
― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to
improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor
“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take
action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking
action because they have issued a threat.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
“Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life;
don't make it wait any longer.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of
events, not of words. Trust movement.”
― Alfred Adler
“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now.
Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way
of standing still.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his
greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be
translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the
feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If
one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and
nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get
bored, cynical, apathetic.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
“Peace is not something you wish for,
it is something
you make, something you are, something you do,
and something you give away. ”
― Robert Fulghum
“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the
world needs all the good that I can do.”
― Jana Stanfield
“Create your own miracles; do what you think you cannot
do.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Do your work, then step back. The only path to
serenity.”
― Lao Tzu
“Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution:
dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her
proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of
illusion.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
“Oskar Scultetus said, “Two of my men have been ordered
to cut two of the guy wires holding the transmission tower in place, and they
are already doing so using oxy-acetylene torches. When they have done
it, the tower will fall!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
