Quotes About Action

Know your right, then go ahead.

Be sure you're right-then go ahead.

get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding....

Listen, nobody has to give up anything unless they really want to or are too darned weak. If Mama really could have done anything she would have-if anybody wants something all she needs do is go and get it. There aren't any excuses.

Never think that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

And when you can align your behaviors with your intentions, make your actions equal to your thoughts, or get your mind and body working together, you are going to have a new experience.

I soon discovered that the greater part of a day in Old State was devoted to meetings. Where the boundaries of jurisdiction were fuzzy or overlapping, meetings became inevitable. Most questions affected a number of functional and geographic divisions...These meetings gave the illusion of action, but often frustrated it by attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable. What was most often needed was not compromise but decision.

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned

Those who try and fix the world are usually those who have trouble fixing the fundamental problems in their own lives

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides," Henri Frédéric Amiel

She rose suddenly and put out

I am talking about seizing your life and truly living it before it is too late.

She challenged us to make justice our priority, and tomorrow, justice will be done.

Our job is to take care of those things within our control, then we are to leave the rest to God. All of this worrying won't change your circumstances. Doing something about the things in your control will.

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we "don't know" what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn't. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

We made plans. I lay in bed for a long time just feeling delicious anticipation. Then excitement hit. I got up. I had to move a mountain or something.

Real tough guys don't swear, they just do.

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

Wait. Are you about to do something really stupid? -GUARD

You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.