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Quotes About Action

The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
~ Phil Woosnam
You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.
~ General Lewis
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
~ Bernard Malamud
It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
~ Moliere
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.
~ Tommy Henrich
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
~ John F. Kennedy
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
~ Sydney Smith
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
~ Anonymous
The world belongs to the energetic.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do it big or stay in bed.
~ Larry Kelly
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
~ Christian Bovee
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.
~ William L. O'Neill
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
~ Herodotus
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
~ Lillian Carter
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.
~ Confucius
Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
~ German proverb
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
~ James Lane Allen
'Tis the motive exalts the action, 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.
~ Margaret Junkin Preston
There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
~ Tommy Lasorda
The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.
~ D. O. Flynn