Quotes About Action

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

I've done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we're going to whine or do the work.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.

The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn't work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they're convinced it does.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

You have to do more than just talk about work. You have to really reward the people who are out there doing it.

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

I would love to work on a Bond film.

Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

Okay then. The destiny didn't work with the Chosen One. So I'll do it instead.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.