Action Quotes -2

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Colleen C. Barrett:

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers (砖匠).

Cyrus Curtis:

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Danilo Dolci:

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting (苛求的, 严格的, 吃力的) work moves mountains.

Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Elbert Hubbard:

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales (大风),
That tells the way we go.

Ella Williams:

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

Never mistake motion for action.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.