Quotes About Action

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Pay no attention to the man who criticizes unless he is doing something better than what he criticizes.

Men, there is much to live for, and there is much to die for. The man, the race of nation that is not prepared to risk life itself for the possession of an ideal, shall lose that ideal. If you, I repeat, must be free, you yourselves must strike the blow.

Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

Aedificare diu cogitare oportet. Conserere cogitare non oportet, sed facere oportet. [Building requires long thought: planting requires not thought but action.]

Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.

Initiative, combined with

You can't stop the future. All you can do is pick a side.

Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It's in the data.

Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.

No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples. Alongside

No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

Well, love don't count one rass unless it's a verb.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Things do not happen, we must make them happen

It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.