Quotes About Action

Success and failure are not accidents but consequences. If you want to know what you sowed in the past, look around you and see what you are reaping today.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Hagas lo que hagas te arrepentiras.

would say that a lot of the science that ends up helping people is undertaken by men and women who are doing it for its own sake, and that going around weeping for those who suffer doesn't mean you're actually doing anything to help them.

You don't know what you're going to do in a crisis," said Frieda. "Until it happens.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

In other words, Americans know they should wash their hands. They just do not translate that knowledge into action. This is particularly true for men. A quantitative assessment of eighty-five scientific studies found that, compared to men, women were better handwashers

men all over the Victory were running to their posts, some to other tasks but the vast majority to man the ship's 104 guns

My friends,' he told them. 'I am going to throw this aboard the English ship.

For a man who had been in action 120 times by the age of thirty-nine, Nelson was bearing up well,

All that remained was a small tuft at the back of his neck which Rotely promptly removed for himself.

who marched his men to the top of the hill and marched them down again.

the first said simply: 'General chase, south-east.' The second said: 'Prepare for battle.

The French waited a couple of minutes and fired again. That shot fell alongside.

Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a book not even this one. Sure you can read about the different swimming strokes or the parts of a bicycle; you can learn the theory and physics behind the sport. But to get to the heart of the matter you've got to leap in and learn by doing.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

was given as a first-world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do something for our children'.

America is going to hell if we don't use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Weber insists that one should not give up or lose faith in the face of this struggle. Indeed, he calls for us to engage in, rather than withdraw from, the problems of this world. He reminds us, for example, that while 'successful political action is always the "art of the possible" ... the possible is often reached only by striving to attain the impossible that lies beyond it'.

You don't feel courageous because courage is not an emotion. There is no such thing as feeling "courageous." It is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don't want to. In the face of danger, you have a choice to be the delegate of either your commitments or your feelings. It's as simple and as difficult as that. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon

Necessity does the work of courage.