5,384 Quotes About Action

Man is slow because he hesitates

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo's taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond to the action with an action. He was a pure gangster.

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

Think, Act, Become

Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus ; après la philosophie il faut l’action ; la vive force achève ce que l’idée a ébauché.

If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.

I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.