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Quotes About Action

If a friend is in trouble, don't bother them by asking if there is anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
If you want to screw around, it's your choice and you accept it when you're caught.
~ Orlando Bloom
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You do not fight for freedom, if you do not respect the freedom of other people. Freedom isn't about me it's about respecting the choices of other people. You do not respect liberty if you do not accept the fact that everyone around you has a different opinion. You shouldn't say I believe in liberty, you should act it out.
~ Unknown
You are free to do as you are told. For freedom, is a figment of your imagination. But imagination is where it all starts. So MAKE freedom.
~ Unknown
Just because we are free to do what we wants does not mean we will ever be self-assured. Having the power to determine action without restraint does not mean we are free to do anything we want; it means we are free to do what we should, given the situation. Living in the present is as beautiful as it gets!
~ Unknown
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
~ Unknown
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
~ Will Rogers
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
~ Unknown
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
~ Bergen Evans
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom
~ Andre Gide
We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos
~ John Dewey
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
~ Henrik Ibsen
There's no time like the present. Any time is better than now.
~ Unknown
Carpe Diem - Or maybe this day doesn't like being seized. . .
~ Unknown
Opportunity tends to knock once, then it's gone...temptation, however, likes to stand there and lean on the damn doorbell!
~ Unknown
When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.
~ Unknown
Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.
~ Unknown
If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
~ Rhonda Hansome
You, you, and you...panic. The rest of you, come with me.
~ Unknown
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
~ Japanese Proverb