Quotes About Action

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Qualquer que seja ou venha a ser o nosso destino, somos nós que o fazemos, e não nos lamentamos.

My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts.

I do what I do and you do what you can do about it.

Time to do the thing, thats word to your wrist watch.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Today we grieve, tomorrow we fight.

Watch the death of your enemy if you can, for you have caused it. When you have killed, watch the consequences of your actions.

Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.

My mom was a real person. I am not a real person. She had convictions and took action. She has purpose and belief. She helped others. I help no one. She helped found that donation organization. I couldn't even write one thank-you letter for a refrigerator. All I want is to write fiction. I am a drain on the system, dragging around my debts and dreams. It's all I've wanted. And now I'm not even able to do that.

His interest lay in experiencing, in doing. Thinking was derivative. Dull. The opposite of living. Whereas she suffered through the humidity and the sago and the lack of plumbing only for the thinking.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

Philosophy is all very well," said the Bazonga bird. "For philosophers! But we are adventurers, bound on a quest of derring-do and all that sort of thing. Less chitchat and more action, say I!

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

I am afraid of the result upon organized action where great results are in view, if any of us allow ourselves to seek out minor or separate points, on which there may be difference of views as to policy and right, and let them keep us from uniting in action upon a great principle in a cause on which we all agree.

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

It strikes me there is some difference between holding a man responsible for an act which he has not done, and holding him responsible for an act that he has done.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." —Dr. Seuss, The Lorax 1

Death lies not in being dead, but in acting dead.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

You're facing it now, and it's never too late.