action Quotes

A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple.... ...

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.