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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
-William James
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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
-William James
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
-William James
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
-William James
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
-William James
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
-St. Jerome
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We judge ourselves by our best intentions and most noble acts but we will be judged by our last worst act.
-Michael Josephson
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
-Benjamin Jowett
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Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
-Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
-Immanuel Kant
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
-Clarence Buddinton Kelland
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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.
-Helen Keller
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Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-Walt Kelly
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation...
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man (or a woman) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he (or she) sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-Robert Francis Kennedy, speech at Day of Affirmation, University of Capetown, South Africa
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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
-Pir Vilayat Khan
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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
-Michael Korda
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
-Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
-Michael Landon
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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He who limps is still walking.
-Stanislaw Lec
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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
-David Letterman
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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
-Elmer G. Letterman
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You can't start at the top.
-Samuel Levenson
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Books about Action(s)
