Quotes about Action

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.

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

A man is the origin of his action.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.