Quotes About Action

Being natural means to exist spontaneously without having to take any action.

Being natural means to exist spontaneously without having to take any action. . . . By taking no action is not meant folding one's arms and closing one's mouth. If we simply let everything act by itself, it will be contented with its nature and destiny. (12)

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

might just as well ask how you knew how to do the things you did.

Work with what you have control of and you'll have your hands full.

One might suppose from such a beginning that Friday is to be a futuristic James Bond adventure. It's not, though the action is often of that ilk. However, the action is rarely anything but icing on the cake and rarely servees to advance the plot. There is a plot, though the author contrives with great grace to let it all take place in the reader's peripheral vision.

Easy," he muttered under his breath. "Save the foolish heroics for the 'all-else-fails' part of the program.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

Better the day, better the deed.

As fast as they peep up let's cut 'em down.

the best way to be allowed to do something was to do it with authority and put the onus on someone to stop you.

The right thing was confusing, and difficult, and sometimes Jason wondered if it was in fact a nonexistent ideal, like heaven or the American dream. There was no right thing. You did what you did for whatever reasons occurred to you at the time, depending on whichever emotion was running thickest in your blood. Your desire and fear and adrenaline and longing. You made your choice and came up with the reasons later.

What sustains us, in belief as in action, is not reason or justification, but something more basic than these--for we go on in the same way even after we are convinced that the reasons have given out. If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse--a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

The sum total of a person's experiences, desires and knowledge, his hereditary constitution, the social circumstances and the nature of the choice facing him, together with other factors that we may not know about, all combine to make a particular action in the circumstances inevitable.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.