Action Quotes

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."

"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."

"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

"I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others."

"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."

"You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else."