Quotes about Action

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Taoist philosophy, "Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Use it or lose it" is a law of nature, but mercifully "not a soul will be lost" is a law of the spirit that supersedes it.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ by loving. —FRANCIS DE SALES

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.