Quotes About Action

List one fear that has been controlling your life. Once you decide to confront the fear, begin repeating to yourself, I can handle it. No matter what happens, I will handle it. Keep repeating this mantra until you take action and stop feeling fear.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don't plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

No one ever does anything but what he wants to do—'enjoys'—within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded.

If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it.

But you don't have to take his advice. Whether you use his ideas, or whether they spark some different plan—make your decision and snap out orders. The one thing—the only thing!—that can strike terror in the heart of a good platoon sergeant is to find that he's working for a boss who can't make up his mind.

She might say: "This mess will clear up if you take that troublemaker there — What's your name? You, with the goatee — out and shoot him. Do it now."--Glory Road; Heinlein

It is contrary to our customs to permit scientific knowledge to be held as a monopoly for the few. When concealing such knowledge strikes at life itself, the action becomes treason to the race.

His water brother could teach, admonish, guide—but choice at cusp was not shared. Here was "ownership" beyond sale, gift, hypothecation; owner and owned grokked inseparable. He eternally was the action he had taken at cusp. Now that he knew himself

He grokked that this was one of the critical cusps in the growth of a being wherein contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. He acted.

Whereupon people would come barging into his sanctuary, asking stupid questions and making stupid demands . . . and he, Jubal Harshaw, would have to make decisions and take action. Since he was philosophically convinced that all action was futile, the prospect irritated him.

If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't

Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don't want. Think

What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well- intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing.

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

When I was younger, I thought I could change this world. Now I no longer think so but for emotional reasons I must keep on fighting a holding action.

Nóó, odpovÄ›dÄ›l Zim, dejme tomu, že jediný, co máte, je n?ž. Nebo ani to ne. Co udÄ›láte? ProstÄ› se jen pomodlíte a zhebnete? Nebo do toho pudete a donutíte ho zaplatit? Synu, tohle je opravdový - nejni to žádná Å¡achová partie, kterou m?žete vzdát, když zjistíte, že už jste moc pozadu.

Well, we shoot mad dogs, don't we?

Just as this free-lance socialist was gathering up their day's receipts, Joe lets him have it, with a cleaver. Curtain. The only notable thing about it was that Joe acted so quickly and correctly in the crunch, for I feel sure that the only fighting that he had ever tried was that which I forced on him in the 'Libby.

To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes; when you have eliminated what you can't do, what remains is what you must do.