Quotes About Action

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The most important office is that of private citizen.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

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

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come!

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

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.

I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

To spur a willing horse.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

No doing without some ruing.

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.