Quotes About Action

It's harder, and less glorious, to realize that legitimate values sometimes conflict with one another, and they have to be balanced. This is not a talent that is exalted on talk radio or cable news shows. But the need to calibrate a proper balance among opposing principles is evident in every issue we face today, from abortion to heath-care reform to affirmative action.

a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages.

And the Scripture assures me that at the last day we shall not be examined by what we thought, but what we did . . 

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

if I had only picked up a telephone and spoken my heart.

WASTING TIME IS a big problem in the world we live in, that's for sure. But it doesn't mean that we necessarily have to know what the goal is for every step we take. Sometimes we do things that are not directly connected and yet are still significant.

you can only have faith that what you are doing is the right thing.

A vast amount of preparation, really, to arrive at the innocuously brief moment of decisive action: the cut—the moment of transition from one shot to the next—something that, appropriately enough, should look almost self-evidently simple and effortless, if it is even noticed at all.

All great masters in any line think positive thoughts, which they put into action with intensive desire tested and tempered by balanced judgement.   All

and that which is done of goodwill must, to my thinking, be accepted favourably. Had it been otherwise, methinks they had ere now been enlightened to do better.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

If you wait till you know everything it's too late

What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end

There ain't enough happens in soccer. It's like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal.

What Mogo did was to take ultimate action to improve his quality of life. This is at the root of murder. We kill people to make our own lives better. We kill them because they are obstacles to our desires, because they make us unhappy, because they burden us, or because they keep calling us fucking wizards. Murder increases happiness.

He could be a wise man of the woods, spoken of in whispers, his words and thoughts becoming spooky action at a distance in the world beyond. A secret wizard of the future.

If you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do.

No one person can do everything . . . but we can all do something.

since God's Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.

Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.

We must dream, but not only dream.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.