Quotes About Action

What are you doing? I'm trying - You are not, my girl. There are two sort of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I'm trying to make you the former. Now concentrate, girl!

There are two sorts of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I am trying to make you the former.

Words are all very well," I replied coolly, suddenly enjoying the SO-5 woman-of-mystery stuff, "but a nine-millimeter really gets to the root of the problem.

los hombres no piden perdón: hacen lo que hacen y dicen lo que dicen, y luego se aguantan.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ. The Church is not to assume a defensive posture, but may take aggressive action to overcome evil by means of good.

Nowhere does the Bible say that one must wait for change. Jesus did not ask people to wait. He expected and effected change right away. Not everything, of course, but something can be changed as the result of every session, including the first. There is a solution to every unsolved problem; this is the Christian conviction that emerges from I Corinthians 10:13 and II Timothy 3:16, 17.

Namorita: Why are you horning in on my action? Orka's an Atlantean criminal. I had the situation perfectly under control. Nova: Yeah, I could tell that from the way you were hitting his fist with your face. -- New Warriors (Vol 2) #0

A person's life persuades better than his word," said one of Aristotle's contemporaries.

Estimula las emociones de tu audiencia. Cambia su opinión. Hazla actuar.

Finalmente, llénala de deseo de actuar. Muestra a la bombilla que el cambio es pan comido e inspírala con una visión de claridad. Esto requiere emociones más fuertes que conviertan una decisión en un compromiso.

One thing I've learned over the years is that nobody really wants my good advice. They just pretend to listen to it." "Probably because most people just want to whine about their problems. They don't want to actually take the hard actions that will fix those problems.

That was the thing about impulsiveness. It contained the seeds of its own retribution.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

The heroes of humanitarian action are applauded: a good thing they're there to rescue our honour! If you denounce this shroud-waving, again there is applause: thank goodness you're there to say these things! It is often the same people who applaud. Sycophants, catechumens, proselytes, acolytes - to arms, all of you!

Speech always begins with stammering. Acts and action always begin with trembling. There is no continuum of the will. It acts on the body by fits and starts (stossweise) and is the product of an interval, a rapid alternation, between tension and release: to act is to produce a difference - even a slight one - between you and yourself. If you eliminate the intervals, tetany ensues: you shake all over.

Without resistance you can do nothing.

It was then that the Room, like a great ship, put out to sea. Higher the waves, wider the horizons, rarer, more perilous, the cargo. In their strange world of childhood, of action in inaction, as in the waking dream of opium eaters, to stay becalmed could be as dangerous as to advance at breakneck speed.

Her hands trembled as she pressed them together to make them stop, for Kapugen had taught her that fear can so cripple a person that he cannot think or act. Already she was too scared to crawl. Change your ways when fear seizes, he had said, for it usually means you are doing something wrong.

I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.