Quotes About Action

We would be better to focus more on acts and less on looks. Hedging puts us into the landscape intimately. It makes us pay attention. When we pay attention, we are repaid in many ways.

Hands, do what you're bid:Bring the balloon of the mindThat bellies and drags in the windInto its narrow shed.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The perfect man of action, is the suicide.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

attack n. assuming an offensive posture The military refers to attack as "assuming an offensive posture.

Your entitlement is to the deed alone, never to its results. Do not make the results of an action your motive. Do not be attached to inaction. Having renounced rewards resulting from actions, wise men endowed with discrimination are freed from the bondage of birth and go to the Regions of Eternal Happiness.'89

This reprimand did much honour to the English; and it must be acknowledged, to the honour of these strangers, that their conduct in war and battle is worthy of admiration, just as, on the other hand, nothing is more becoming than their behaviour to an enemy, whether in the heat of action, or in the pride of success and victory.54

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action. And whether they'll vote New Labour at the next election. There's no need to be cynical, Susan. Why not? You've got me there.

Dado que no puedes hacer lo que quieres, pregúntate qué puedes hacer».

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Hit hard, hit fast, hit often!

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.