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Quotes About Action

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Councils of War never fight.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.
~ Tom Clancy
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
~ William Shakespeare
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Destruction is a man's will, Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will, Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. :)
~ Babu Rajan
Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.
~ Rachel Caine
the main thing is to make history not to write it
~ Otto von Bismarck
For 1, 300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.
~ Alijia Izetbegovic
the worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.
~ Fritz Gerlich
I decided to start a war, father", I said, cheerfully, "it's so much more interesting than peace.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.
~ Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy
Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change.
~ Raouf Reda Habib
It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!
~ Widad Akreyi
hit with your fist, not with your finger spread
~ Prasetya Ramadhan
the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.
~ Leon Wieseltier
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
~ Otto von Bismarck
It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.
~ Tom Smothers
This is the right time, and this is the right thing.
~ Thomas Moore
I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding, ' 'Pretty Woman, ' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now
~ Avis J. Williams
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
~ Anton Chekhov
Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
~ Michel Foucault