Quotes About Action

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

Rapidity is the essence of war.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.

Yet if there's one thing I know with absolute certainty, both personally and professionally, it is this: Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

There is always time to make right what is wrong.

As each hour passes it's like a door has closed. You will never be able to revisit that hour to undo something you regret, or to do something you should have, so it's important to make the hour you are in the one that counts.

That's what love does. It doesn't stop to consider the cost. It just...acts. Puts itself out there.

That's the Marshall men - they don't know the word for slow down, be careful, stop and think ... you know, prudence.

It's not about how you feel. It's about what you do.

Today, we save lives.

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.

We decide who and what we will love and who and what we will hate. We decide what we will do with the love and hate. Every day we decide. It was this that revealed who we were, not the color of our flesh or the shape of our eyes or the language we spoke.