Quotes About Action

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

We ain't going to curse anyone," said Granny firmly. "It hardly ever works if they don't know you've done it.

Do unto others before they do unto you.

Can't we do anything about it? - No! - Then I can't see the sense in panicking, said Twoflower calmly

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

It's All Officers, sir. They broke into a run. You always did for an All Officers. The people in trouble might well be you.

If he was going to be boiled for a lamb, then he might as well be roasted for a sheep.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

Agitation gives birth to creation.

Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not.

What will we make of the life before us? How do we translate the gifts of solitary beauty into the action required for true participatory citizenship?

I do not believe we can look for leadership beyond ourselves. I do not believe we can wait for someone or something to save us from our global predicaments and obligations. I need to look in the mirror and ask this of myself: If I am committed to seeing the direction of our country change, how must I change myself?

The world is already split open, and it is in our destiny to heal it, each in our own way, each in our own time, with the gifts that are ours.

I believe one has to get one's hand dirty or you're nothing but a hobbyist.

What's done cannot be undone. Lady Macbeth's

Don't wait to start living. Live now! Your life should be real in this very moment.

Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.

If we study it is not to store up knowledge but to deepen our understanding. Our understanding, in turn, can only deepen as we put it into action.