Quotes About Action

As Jim Rohn says: "if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause.

You can't keep putting things off by grilling beards

No decision or action is made without a thought, and a thought , no matter how subtle, is generated out of the past. All thoughts and actions arise out of predisposing influences of myriad sorts; and the self is manufactured out of thoughts.

No matter what you do, be careful of what you say and if you happen to say it, do it.

Somewhere on the border of Burma and India is a monument. Carved on a giant teak tree, "preserved for humanity," are the words BANDOOLA BORN 1897, KILLED IN ACTION 1944. Williams never saw Po Toke again.

The world needs you to show up and follow your dreams.

if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and Aristotle alike remind us—they can indeed become real accomplices to evil through inaction.

an action can last for a while, but a spoken, word last forever.

Don't you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don't know. Really, I'm not sure how to explain, but can't you sense it? The world is being tossed into chaos, and there are just us select few who see it, who can do something, and if we don't … well, I'm not sure the gods will forgive us. That we would be offered this chance and then cower. I can't believe it. I won't. We must rise to the occasion.

Okay, now get out of the way. I've got gypsies with me.

He heard the hiss of an arrow followed by the thud of a body hitting the ground. They'd hit one of the riders behind him. More arrows cut through the air, one so close to his ear he felt the fletching tickle his lobe.

First, they believe that when trouble comes to our country there will be Marines—somewhere—who, through hard work, have made and kept themselves ready to do something useful about it, and do it at once.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

advertising is nothing but an expense (not an investment) unless it gets the kind of action desired by the advertiser.

Design is basic to all human activities - the placing and patterning of any act towards a desired goal constitutes a design process.

Don't let not knowing what to do prevent you from doing anything at all

You do not necessarily have to get before you do but when you do, you shall get

Keep chasing your dreams before guilt of doing nothing touches your back

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

Feeling tired of your four walls?Jesus commanded us to "GO", not sit! (Mark 16:15) Just saying!

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.