Quotes About Action

Don't worry; work!

Unless you have chains around your ankles, I want to see your elbows pumping down the hallway now!' Isn't it nicer, however, to be asked to "drop by"?

I don't train to be in a gunfight; I'd much rather be in a shooting—there's a difference. A gunfight means he's shooting back at me. In a shooting, I'm doing all the work.

One who hesitates, digs himself a grave.

Hesitation is a half way to death

The one who never draws a bow, never strikes.

no forces can't be too great if the evil is to be forestall.

All what I do today, I can forget tomorrow.

Without Action there Will Not be many Chances or changes in our life

How could he do possibly want to do this fool thing?…Maybe it wasn't about wanting or not wanting. Though he was beyond serving the mission field, wasn't his own town a mission field?…And didn't charity begin at home?

In truth, Mitford is everywhere. You can even find it in the heart of darkness. But we must do our part. We must give a hand; we must learn to console and uplift and encourage and be courageous. Bottom line, we simply cannot wait for others to reach out. We must reach in.

He was miserably disappointed in his own everlasting inability to get up and go, to take strong action and seize control, and do all the things that other people seemed able to do, and which the world admired so much.

At a time when his friends had stopped believing in Santa Claus, he was still believing in the powerful reality of the small tableau—in much the same way, he supposed, that a boy believes his action heroes to be living, and the battles on the parlor floor to be real.

should have just drove this Plymouth on in the door." For some reason he couldn't explain

Beter één vuurpijl in de lucht, dan tien in de kast, heeft de koning geschreven

Opposing redeployment US and Dutch ambassadors were making more robust action impossible.

I think being pissed is a good thing," Eleonore said. "If you're just a little angry, then you let things go, but if you're really pissed, you make sure that things change. I've made a lot of positive changes in my life because of being pissed.

Another hour or two delaying

Pity was for those who couldn't do anything about it.

It was a bunch of explanations but not an excuse. The bottom line is that no matter why I did the things I did, I always had a choice in doing them.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.