5,384 Quotes About Action

Direct action is not always the best way. It is a far greater victory to make another see through your eyes than to close theirs forever.

The good news is that no one can sincerely admit to be stupid in life.

Relationship is like squeezing an orange and throwing away the rind.

Many people may talk, but only few can practice whatever they have said.

For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.

Do a new thing in a new way. Do it always!

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.

Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself.