Quotes About Action

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

suddenly enlightenment, blinding and dazing as the light which smote Saul on the road to Damascus, burst upon her. Negation and disbelief would never cure the sickness of this world. You could never defeat evil by retreating from it. It must be faced and fought and overcome. Action, not futile sorrow, was what was needed.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Every time the brain is used, four components are triggered: motor movement, thought, sensation, and feeling. Under normal circumstances, we don't experience one without the other three.*

Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.

The raft was seized, with a noise like needles knitting, and we were hemmed in for winter -- river and the old channel's oxbow lake having frozen solid. By now, we guessed we were not two ordinary river travelers...it must have been the river that was extraordinary: a marvel that protected us by the same mysterious action that had given a common horse wings and changed a woman into a laurel tree.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

So there was a new breed of adventurers, urban adventurers who drifted out at night looking for action with a black man's code to fit their facts. The hipster had absorbed the existentialist synapses of the Negro, and for practical purpose could be considered a white Negro.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how".

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Trebuie s? po?i începe ?i sfâr?i când vrei - sau trebuie s?-?i faci rost de o voin??. Voin?a e întotdeauna ra?ional? - ?i puternic?. Dac? vrei, atrunci po?i. Dar n-ai o voin?? ferm?, sau n-ai deloc, dac? e?ti ?i ac?ionezi nera?ional - dac? nu începi ?i nu încvhizi cartea când e bine ?i-n?elept s-o faci.