Quotes About Action

when you make mistakes at least try to make them quickly.

In future just remember one thing: you're guaranteed to miss every shot you don't take.

Screw it. Let's do it.

Challenge is the core and mainspring of all human action. If there's an ocean, we cross it. If there's a disease, we cure it. If there's a wrong, we right it. If there's a record, we break it. And if there's a mountain, we climb it.

If you stop doing the wrong thing the right thing will happen by itself'.

It doesn't matter what kinds of limits or consequences parents establish. All that matters is that parents back their words up with action and hold fast.

Honesty is a good thing, but it comes in different flavors. Honesty about our feelings is sincerity. Honesty about our intentions is candor. But suppose our feelings or intentions are childish or evil. What then do we gain by expressing or allowing them? The most important form of honesty, especially in a leader, is determining the right course of action and forthrightly pursuing it.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

The symbolism of the action has been replaced by the reality of the touch.

Alexander Maclaren writes: "This man, before he was four-and-twenty hours a disciple, had made another. Some of you have been disciples for as many years, and have never even tried to make one."3

Meine Handlungen und meine Hirnzustände durchkreuzen sich munter wechselseitig. Eine endlose Abfolge aus Tun und Sein, Sein und Tun: Do be do be do.

You can't get by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives.

You can't go by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives. - Michael St. Pierre

learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

High-performing districts "tended to rely more on a common culture of values to shape collective action than on bureaucratic rules and controls.

The only action we have to take is to decide whether we are going to stay closed or open up, accept experience as it is or rationalize it to death. This is what Joseph Campbell meant when he said that what we seek is not the meaning of life but the "experience of being alive.

Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action.

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.

You cannot be passive in life, or in time the natural man will undermine your efforts to live worthily. You become what you do and what you think about. Lack of character leads one under pressure to satisfy appetite or seek personal gain. You cannot successfully bolster a weak character with the cloak of pretense.

Within the range of Macdonald's accomplishments, there are sizable gaps. The largest, surely, is that, unlike Lincoln, he never appealed to people's "better angels." He was a doer, not a thinker, although highly intelligent and omnivorously well read. He lacked the certitudes of a moralist, instead taking human nature as he found it and turning it to his purposes.

I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.

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