Quotes about Action

To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you really want it, you take it.

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....

only when mankind would submit to the One God who created all—only then would mankind even approach the "peace" of which so much talk could be heard…but toward which so little action was seen. I

I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.

In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Everything fades so quickly, turns into legend, and soon oblivion covers it. And those are the ones who shone. The rest—"unknown, unasked-for" a minute after death. What is "eternal" fame? Emptiness. Then what should we work for? Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same source and spring.

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.

Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how