Quotes About Action

The State Department's Theodore Achilles was almost blasé about it: "In due course our Government will no doubt be asked to appoint representatives to sit on the [war crimes] Commission," he told staffers in mid-December. But in the meantime, "no action is required.

We might describe ourselves as living the illusion of knowing but not knowing. To know is to act. If we really knew about the state of the world, we would respond to it. It is the same with our unresolved inner problems. There would be no choice about it: we would be a force for change. Wisdom

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt)

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can't, gripe.

She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They never forgive you.

As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen

About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

We, each of us, can take control of the world.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.