Action Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

— Georgy Zhukov

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another…

— Erving Goffman

A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing…

— Selma Fraiberg

The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because…

— John Ruskin

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and…

— Holbrook Jackson

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

— George Eliot