Quotes About Action

The problem is to be faced and the solution to be shirked.

Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds.

Try, above all things to be still and to contain yourself. You always want to rush into action. Realise that a certain kind of stillness is the most perfect form of action, like a seed can wait. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not be a mere rushing on.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Misli dobro, pa ?e dobro i biti.

Ja sam vidio u ?emu je takozvana borbenost nekih "borbenih" ljudi. Oni izmisle svoju "borbu", na silu joj na?u razloge, nadjenu ime, i bore se, bez rizika i rezultata, bore se – samo da ne bi morali misliti i raditi.

Nije važno koliko ?ovek vremena uštedi, nego šta s tim ušte?enim vremenom radi; ako ga na zlo upotrebi, onda bi bolje bilo da ga nema. Nije glavno pitanje da li ?ovek brzo ide, nego kud ide i po kakvom poslu.

Svako ljudsko delo i svaka re? mogu da donesu zlo.

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same.

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it.

When I trust what I think and feel, then I am empowered to take actions that are self-supportive, self-respectful, and self-nurturing. I

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

if you're looking to see what the government of Kiribati finally decides to do, when do they wave the flag and say the last good-bye, I'm afraid I can't help you. But look around, follow the news, Google it, bear witness. The very least we could do for the canary is acknowledge its demise.

Take care, don't fight, and remember, if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed trial balloons or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

Here's the way it works. You're going to find yourself at a crossroads.. There's going to be a dcision you'll have to make, an action to be taken or not, a choice between polar opposites. All of what you are and what you have been and what you could be will be measured on your decision. And the consequences? They don't just affect you. They affect everyone. This is not simple life and death - it's about eternity. Yours. Others'. Do not understimate how far this goes.

Ethics is lived eschatology. It is, as New Testament scholar George Eldon Ladd put it, "the presence of the future."4

At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking feelings .

Unnerved, Summerset moved quickly to the communication center. Roarke, the lieutenant has just come in from outside. She wore no outer gear. She looks very bad. Where is she? She's heading up. Roarke, I insulted her and...she apologized to me. Something must be done.

Then we'd better stop her. Coating the hammering fear with calming ice, Roarke worked precisely. I'm not losing my wife today. I need more shagging light here.

Don't make threats unless you intend to follow through.

Eyes on hers, he flicked her shoulder. Her mouth fell open. She started stomping the floor. What in God's name are you doing? he demanded. Trying to kill the giant tarantula, because the only reason I can figure you just fucking flicked me is because there was a big, fat spider on my shoulder.