Quotes About Action

The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.

Strike, but hear me.

P]erhaps in this case, as often, the most courageous resolution might have been at the same time the most prudent

What was the use of propriety when it kept one from getting things done?

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

at the outset almost every man is frightened when he goes into action, but that the course to follow is for the man to keep such a grip on himself that he can act just as if he was not frightened. After this is kept up long enough it changes from pretense to reality, and the man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it.

There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, ranging from grizzly bears to "mean" horses and gunfighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. Most men can have the same experience if they choose.

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The second best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.