Quotes About Action

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Well, you gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

Freedom is not the greatest thing; how we decide to use our freedom is the greatest thing.

A film has to star Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris before it begins to pose a bigger threat to the language than yellow journalism.)

I merely leap and pause." (Either you got the pause or you don't got the pause.)

Ich glaube nicht, dass wir geboren werden mit einem vorherbestimmten Weg und einem bekannten Ende. Vielmehr sind wir das Ergebnis unserer eigenen Handlungen, die wiederum beeinflußt werden von dem, was das Leben gegen uns unternimmt. Die Summe all dessen macht uns zu dem, was wir sind.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

How much of us is what we do?

When did we get too old for this, Daeng? What happened to those days when we were somersaulting through the air with a cutlass in each hand taking out the enemy twenty at a time?" "I don't think that was us, Love. That was Bruce Lee.

Truly times must be out of joint, when only asses have any power of action left, and those who have a little more intelligence use it to doubt everything, and to persuade themselves that it is not worth while to attempt anything.

He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.

Never take a risk out of pride, impatience, or a desire to get it over with.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

A sabedoria não consiste tanto em saber o que fazer no final, mas em saber o que fazer em seguida.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.