Quotes About Action

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

If YOU want to BUILD and MAINTAIN a POSITIVE ATTITUDE, get into the habit of LIVING IN THE PRESENT and DOING IT NOW.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.