Quotes about Action

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

The act that anything evil puts forth is due to the strength of goodness, but a deficient goodness. For if there were nothing of good there, neither would there be any being, nor any action: again, if the goodness were not deficient, neither would there be any evil.

To sin is to fall short of a perfect action; hence to be able to sin is to be able to fall short in action, which is repugnant to omnipotence.

Agere sequitur esse.

Every agent makes its like

Here is no choice but either do or die.

The only way a strategy can get implemented is if we dedicate resources to it.

But in disruptive situations, action must be taken before careful plans are made. Because much less can be known about what markets need or how large they can become, plans must serve a very different purpose: They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.