Quotes About Action

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds.

I have learn'd that fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay; Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary. Then fiery expedition be my wing, Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king! Go, muster men. My counsel is my shield. We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

O, what men dare do!

One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.

Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault, Assemble all the poor men of your sort; Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.

Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.

A leaner action rend us. What's amiss, May it be gently heard. When we debate Our trivial difference loud, we do commit Murther in healing wounds.

I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak.

Come, we burn daylight, ho!

some good I mean to do, Despite of mine own nature.

For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too much: that we would do We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues

Bist du zu feige, / Derselbe Mann zu sein in Tat und Mut, / Der du in Wünschen bist?

What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure?

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.—

Major Eele observed Studdy clumsily thinking. He saw an opportunity to create a pleasant mischief and did so immediately.

INTRODUCTION THE FIRST NEGOTIATION Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES

Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES

A behavioral proposal focuses on what you'd like the other to do, not on who you'd like the other to be.

Devon Randle went down the center aisle toward the back of the dining room, where a set of swinging doors opened into the kitchen. An arm's length or so short of the doors, he'd turned hard on his heels, spinning, shucking a pair of six-guns out of the holsters and into his hands. He'd stepped to the side, out of the way of the swinging doors, so no one could surprise him from that direction.

had watched the shoot-out. "Ten

a few well-placed shots would either kill them or drive them back inside.

measure, he put some slugs into a couple men rushing forward, tugging at their guns. They spun as they were hit, crying out and falling

In the West, a man measured his manhood by his readiness to do what needed to be done and by doing it well, without a backward step.