Quotes About Action

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, "Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. You know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

The fate of the Empire truly rests on this one action,

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.

Freedom of action based on commander's intent means that the expectation is success, not a particular way of achieving success.

Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart

Neither did I, but unlike Leon, I would be highly unlikely to shoot each of them through the left eye "for symmetry reasons.

Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!

She will find the hornet's nest and set it on fire. When the angry hornets fly out, she'll poke them with her sword.

Come on, guys, don't just stand there. Grab a spoon and let's get busy." Nobody said anything or moved. "What? How did you think this worked? That I would wiggle my nose and sniff out the poison? If only. No, you eat it and if you die, I can say, 'Yes, it's been poisoned.