Quotes About Action

Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.

Then make your decision and live by it.

We can't always wait for the perfect timing.

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

The enactment of critical play exhibits at least three kinds of action: unplaying, re-dressing or reskinning, and rewriting.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Even though you can hide from the earth, heaven sees you act. AMISH PROVERB

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There are four kinds of people in this world: •those who make things happen •those who watch things happen •those who wonder what happened •those who don't know that anything happened! I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be first on that list.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

When you're so undecided, it's better not to do anything, the right course of action is to take no action at all

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant.

The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

The man who sleeps on a warning does not deserve one. What wait till tomorrow? I will go today?

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

An animal of only instinct, Johnny Ferret, has in his actions drama, but no theater; theater requires that you draw a circle around the action and observe it from outside the circle; in other words, self-consciousness is theater.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

for every man; a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do; which could he but be led or driven to do, he were then doing "like a man," as we phrase it. His success, in such case, were complete, his felicity a maximum. This path, to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

we must be active and earnest in kindness, not merely passive and inoffensive. LITTLE THINGS, 1852.