action

641.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

642.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

- Nelson Mandela

643.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

644.

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

- Oprah Winfrey

645.

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

- Oscar Wilde

646.

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

- Oscar Wilde

647.

Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

648.

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

- Oscar Wilde

649.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

- Peter McWilliams

650.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

- Peter McWilliams

651.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is

- Phillips Brooks

652.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

- Plotinus

653.

Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle.

- Plutarch

654.

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

- Prophet Mohammad

655.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

656.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

657.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

658.

One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this.

- Real Live Preacher

659.

For centuries now we've tried everything else; the power of wealth, of mighty armies and navies, machinations of diplomats. All have failed. Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace. Peace on earth to men of good will.

- Richard Cardinal Cushing

660.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

- Richter, Jean Paul