Quotes About Action

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?

She turned instead, and went into the house.

Yes, we need to be active Christians, walking through doors that are open to us. But sometimes we break the doors down, say they were already open, and even use God's name to defend ourselves, defiling his character with misinterpretations of His word. We do these things to meet her own needs instead of trusting Him.

When in doubt, shoot 1st and ask questions later, but avoid the head, "because they'rea lot more likely to answer if they're not dead.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

the words I once learned during an office safety drill: Pull, aim, squeeze, sweep. Pull, aim, squeeze, sweep.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

Sense sends to Imagination before Reason have judged, & Reason sends over to Imagination before decree can be acted.

Calling for change and being part of making change are two very different things. Stop calling for change and be a part of making the change you want to see.

He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo's taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond to the action with an action. He was a pure gangster.

Quante volte mi sono trovato su un trampolino con sotto il mare azzurro, e non mi sono tuffato

Once that whole valley was sage scrub. Nothing more. Until one little beaver dammed a small stream." Silence. Wind rustles through autumn grasses. "A small act," he says quietly, "that reshaped the future." He looks at Ash. "The past doesn't always have to write the future.

You who learned from your mother that in order to keep your own reputation and family intact, sometimes a woman needs to take radical action and look the other way. It's you who chose to believe boys will be boys, especially in groups, and you who put your head in the sand. You who still choose to believe there are slutty females out to lure and entice men expressly to gain favors, and that the men are powerless in the face of free sex and those women are to blame.