Quotes About Action

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

Will you draw your sword with your free hand? I already have. Will you make a fist with yours? It's clenched.

We are both men of action, Westley replied. Lies do not become us.

Mortals alone can change their destinies; heroes are measured by their willingness to do so.

if pastors know whose they are, where they come from, and why they are here, they will better know what to do, here, now.

There was once a common understanding in our society among men that there are standards of action and behavior to which men should hold themselves. Men, the code dictates, among other things, keep their word, whether in writing or not, men do not take advantage of women, men support their children, and men watch their language, especially around women and children. The code of men is fading.

For life is all too short, dear, And sorrow is all too great, To suffer our slow compassion That tarries until too late; And it isn't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of a heartache At the setting of the sun.

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain

We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.

The means have murdered the end.

I will act as if what i do makes a difference.

To change one's life: Begin now. Be bold. No exceptions.

In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing.

Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.

Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he tried and failed.

The strenuous life tastes better.

The plotters finally had someone to give orders—without such, a German officer seemed lost, even a rebellious one, even on this crucial day—and they began to act.

Good propaganda, to be effective, as Hitler and Goebbels had learned from experience, needs more than words. It needs deeds, however much they may have to be fabricated.

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