Quotes About Action

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Act upon your ideas or they will stay in the invisible realm of your mind.

Blaming keeps you in the problem. Taking responsibility for your actions points you in the direction of the solution.

Stop acting as a bystander in your Reality. You are the Imaginer, Dreamer and Creator of your Reality. Change your stars!

Your POWER always resides in the moment of CHOICE.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

Forget yourself and get to work.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

Don't nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord; then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.

We too must work. Nothing happens in this world until there is work. You never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. You have to put your hands to the handles of the plow and walk forward. It is easier now, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful blessing that is.

Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him—but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.

You're either an agent of change, or a victim of it

Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. "Practise not doing and everything will fall into place," says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism's primer.

Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to cry aloud from the house-top. I ceased

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

It did not mean that the explanation was always immediately available. But nothing happened without a reason; particularly as far as the actions of the higher mammals were concerned. There had to be a cause for every action. That

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This is well to be weighed, that boldness is ever blind, for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences; therefore it is ill in counsel, good in execution...

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.