Quotes About Action

get out of the way. Vic dropped the bundle of TNT into the flames as he

opened the breech where the cartridge went and ejected the empty brass.

There was an old saying about how God helped those who helped themselves. Preacher would have added that God watched over those who weren't damn fools to start with.

Better wear out than rust out.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing

Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform.

Look here,' she began, 'you can't go on like that, you know. If you are really keen on a thing, and it's a good thing, you ought to go and do it. It is no use waiting till people tell you that you may go. Asking permission is a coward's way of shifting responsibility on to some one else.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.

After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic

Quando devi uccidere un uomo non costa nulla essere gentile.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

You see people every day who take a chance and damn the consequences. Many of them suffer for it, but I do not think they come off worst. The people who come off worst are the people who draw back at the last moment and spend the rest of their lives regretting it.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Cromwell's imperious words to the Long Parliament: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

No one can tell that he may not some day set a stone rolling or take or neglect some ordinary step which in its consequences will alter the history of the world.

In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.