Quotes About Action

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

Sex is like crime. Only one per cent motivation and ninety-nine per cent opportunity.

I shouldn't have hit him at all but it was only a little jab in the belly and it helped him to sober up still more.

who draws a sword against a prince must throw away the scabbard'.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course toward Socialism.

What are we going to do in the face of what we remember? (Langston Hughes)

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God