Quotes About Action

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.

Give me another horse! bind up my wounds!

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly; if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come.

William Shakespeare

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;And now I'll do 't: and so he goes to heaven;And so I am reveng'd.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Make haste; the better foot before.

When you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that.

The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,That ever I was born to set it right!

'Tis well said again;And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:And yet words are no deeds.

Our new heraldry is hands not hearts.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead!In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility:But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger;Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage;Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.

How all occasions do inform against me,And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,If his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.Sure he that made us with such large discourse,Looking before and after, gave us notThat capability and godlike reasonTo fust in us unus'd.

William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

My dad was good with actions.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

If you want to do something, the most practical thing I can tell you is: weep. First of all, care enough to weep.

It sounds crazy, but I'm not even scared when I decide to go for it. Frankly, it's the only logical course of action. If you have the chance to uncover a secret and you walk away without looking, there's something wrong with you.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Another near miss by a sizzling bolt put Preacher in motion. "Let's quit playin' target for that stuff.