Quotes About Action

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Delay always breeds danger.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?

The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.

What the government will or will not do is finally beside the point. If people do not have the government they want, then they will have a government that they must either change or endure. Finally

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it? It is not 'significant' to love your own children or to eat your own dinner, either. But normal humans will not wait to love or eat until it is mandated by an act of Congress.

One must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.

become good. It would become beautiful. It would make us happy, and not with the future happiness of political promising. It would make us happy as soon as we began to do it.

If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.

In other words, if you are fearful of the destruction of the environment, then learn to quit being an environmental parasite.

trouble with this is that a proper concern for nature and our use of nature must be practiced, not by our proxy-holders, but by ourselves

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

men must act on what they believe right, not on what they believe probable.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.