Quotes About Action

Mankind can be wiped off the face of the earth by the action of any comparatively small group of people. So it would seem that if we care to survive we must progress in our social and economic development far more rapidly than we have done in the past."28

One hour of going to see things with your own eyes is more worthwhile than twenty hours of talking about things.

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

Hope is a verb with the sleeves rolled up.

of karma," or "You get what you give," or "You reap what you sow.

Without the work, there is nothing.

Weak people are destructive; powerful people are constructive. Powerful people create, facilitate, and make things happen.

Intervention. Corny letters notwithstanding, they have guts. The person they're confronting might storm out of the room and never talk to them again, but at least they're rolling the dice.

I think we've both seen this coming for a long… time. The only question left is… what are we going to do about it? Oh, baby, let's run wild.

A heavily armed nation prone to violence finds it only reasonable to give law officers weapons and the authority to use them. In the United States, only a cop has the right to kill as an act of personal deliberation and action. To

In the grip of depression or anxiety, any affirmative step is better than paralysis. Action promotes more action; decision produces decision; living generates life.

Douglass insisted on remembrance before any action: "Perhaps there is too much past. But remember that all the present rests on all the past. Remember is as good a word as forget.

Americans, Douglass believed, instinctively and culturally watched history and preferred not to act in it.

kinesthetic

That sounds strangely little like justice, Tisipohone jibed gently. On the contrary. Alicia jacked a discarding sabot round into the M-97's chamber and settled her left hand briefly on the forestock to activate its computer systems. I won't do a thing to them unless they intend to do something to me. Indeed? Indeed. But if they do have something planned, I intend to do unto them first. So there are times you see things my way after all. Never said there weren't.

swung the door shut behind him.

all that was necessary for evil to triumph was for good men—and women—to do nothing.

Can you change something? If so, do it; if not, don't worry about it – it's that simple.

Set phasers to stun, and ... we shall see what happens.

action, including dialogue, is fast, and accelerates; reflective writing is a brake and slows—and they will set off a pumping action that makes the story breathe. The speed of that breathing is set by the measure of action to reflection. More action, less reflection—faster. More reflection, less action—slower.

Carpe Deim, Carpe Noctem.

Inaction counted as a choice.

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.