Actions Quotes

Let us travel it together. Let us, by our joint actions, vindicate the purposes for which this Organization was established and create a situation wherein its Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will become part of the body of law on which will be based the political and social order of a new South Africa. Our common victory is assured.

We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

I hope that our movement will always hold that commitment to non-racialism dear in its thoughts, policies and actions. It is that commitment, even in circumstances wherewe could have been pardoned for deviating from it, that amongst other things earned us the respect of the world.

Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical assertion? Isn't this like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery?

You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.

After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action.

So we have had to dispense with the indispensable.

Things do not get better by being let alone. Unless they are adjusted, they explode with shattering detonation.

The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years, are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious wit without which great actions are seldom accomplished.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.