Action Quotes - Page 89
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
"Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.101, Macmillan
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
Storm Jameson (1932). “That was yesterday”
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.10, Penguin
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”
Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.56, editionNEXT.com
The Plays of Sophocles Trachiniae l. 589
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.150, Routledge
Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.
Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”
The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.11, Vintage
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.286, Classic Books Company
Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.323