action

1081.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

- Selassie, Haile

1082.

A radical is one of whom people say He goes too far. A conservative, on the other hand, is one who doesn't go far enough. Then there is the reactionary, one who doesn't go at all. All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

1083.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

1084.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

- Freud, Sigmund

1085.

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

- Woolf, Virginia

1086.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

- Phillips, Wendell

1087.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

- Carlyle, Thomas

1088.

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

1089.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

1090.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

- Selden, John

1091.

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

- Genet, Jean

1092.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

- Pavese, Cesare

1093.

Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

1094.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

- Covey, Stephen R.

1095.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

- Hannah, John A.

1096.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

- Jeffrey, Lord

1097.

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

- Lord Jeffery

1098.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

- Austen, Jane

1099.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

- Quarles, Francis

1100.

You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

- Allen, R. C.