10 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Action

Fernando Pessoa quotes on action

4. I fulfilled my duty against destiny. / Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

6. Faithful to the word given and the idea had. / All else is up to God!

42. As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

64. Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.

71. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

76. I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

77. To act is to rest.

97. Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

129. Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

136. Every gesture is a revolutionary act.