Quotes About Action

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

That is the problem we have in Argentina: we do not sit down and think.

I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.

If, in all the circumstances of life a man does not turn over and over both things and ideas in order to examine them thoroughly under their different aspects before taking action, that man is weak and incomplete and in danger of fatal failure.

À força de falar, um homem acaba por acreditar no que diz; ao passo que se pode agir contra o próprio pensamento sem viciá-lo e ganhar uma causa má sem sustentar que seja boa, como o faz o advogado ao pleitear.

There is one thing remarkable about women: they never reason about their blameworthy actions,—feeling carries them off their feet; even in their dissimulation there is an element of sincerity; and in women alone crime may exist without baseness, for it often happens that they do not know how it came about that they committed it.

La burocrazia è un gigantesco meccanismo azionato da pigmei".

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

And he woke up the next morning light-hearted and eager; so fine a medicine was the will to action.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

Busy idleness urges us on

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow![Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]