Quotes About Action

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Every time we perform a conscious action, there is just such an interchange of messages between our nerve centers, our brain and our muscles.

And Philiper Flash, With a horrible slash, Whacked his jugular open and went to smash.

I would rather live my life than not live it.

We're extraordinary people. We must do extraordinary things.

Do not commit the error so common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

What we do Yesterday is done, believing in the things for Tomorrow is a maybe, what we do today hopefully we can remember it tomorrow as a memorable day.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Do one thing every day that scares you.' From now on, that's what we have to do.

I believe in Kindness. Well, you may retort, who doesn't? But I believe in it rather as religious people believe in God. I think it is the answer to almost all of our problems: from the miseries of divorce to nuclear proliferation. If humanity learnt to gauge its every action by the simple criterion of kindness - always to ask if it is, on balance, the kindest thing to do? - the world would be much happier.

The unfortunate ones of the world were subjected to a more lingering torment, and the fortunate ones were merely condemned to watch it from a front seat, unwilling tricoteuses at an execution they were powerless to prevent. The least they could do was not to turn away their eyes; for with such a picture stamped upon the retina of their memory they would not be able to lie easy until they had done their best to ensure that it could never happen again.

I'm so tired of asking Andrew to do things around the house. No one has to ask me. You know why? Because I just get on with it.

Motherhood is really like being in an action movie that goes on for your whole life—but with all the boring, everyday bits left in," she says. "Mothers have to do a poo in four parts because a child will cry, and then they try and finish off but the child needs them again! A new mother will work far harder, more creatively, and more effectively than people who don't have children—because she has to.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

what must be at last had better be soon.

Do not defer it. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do