Quotes About Action

Putting things off means precious time is lost. Productivity suffers.

A client once said: "Long-range, strategic planning is a great tool, but we need to get some things done before lunch!

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

The good life is not found in dreams of progress,but in coping with tragic contingencies.We have been reared on religions and philosophies that deny the experience of tragedy.Can we imagine a life that is not founded on the consolations of action?Or are we too lax and coarse even to dream of living without them?

If you want to G-E-T then you have to A-S-K.

it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a better answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications of the best answer we've got.

The fear of getting caught was not driven by the fear of paying the price. Rather, it was the fear of having to stop.

Boone suggested Theo go home, take

If you see a problem, Theo, think of a way to fix it and do it now. Don't spend all your time making plans.

had been "the worst thing" about this cold-blooded deed.

It was now up to Mary herself to see if she could reshuffle their discarded hand.

Within a week, six thousand men rallied to her cause.

But her decision to cross the border was a catastrophic mistake.

the grounds that such action might become a precedent for noble forfeitures generally.

You develop faith by doing things that require faith.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Our generation has mastered the art of looking the other way when evil presents its face of terror and death.

So, it is the spirit in which one acts that is vital, and the notion of language games clarifies this.

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history.

Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und große Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so günstig ist.

Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join

Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more.

Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo

Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.