Quotes About Action

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

LeBlanc's law: Later equals never.

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

As an engineer, you have a depth of knowledge about your systems and projects that no managers can possibly have. With that knowledge comes the responsibility to act.

Where to Begin?" Printed in Stuttgart in March 1902, under the title What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement,

What Is to Be Done?, which made the Marxist theory of revolution into a theory of how to make a revolution.

In the wake of this action by the congress, some thirty of the opposition leaders, headed by Trotsky, were exiled to remote parts of the country in early 1928, Trotsky's place of exile being Alma-Ata, near the Chinese border.

soon after being expelled he caused the expulsion of the other members of his secret socialist group in the seminary by reporting their names to the rector. According to these sources, he admitted his action and justified it to the expelled boys on the ground that they would become good revolutionaries now that they had lost the opportunity for careers as priests.

Live your Life go to your grave empty don't let your dreams get buried under six feet of dirt

Whistleblowers get fired and shot or crack up. You have to decide what you want to do. Do you want a career, or do you want to be an advocate? And where I've been an advocate, I do it not in my backyard. If I'm going to fight, I don't do it in the backyard. In other words, I can get more done by not doing it in the backyard. I can train my students in the right way to do things.

Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started.

What does it matter if another player, your friend or rival, intended good things and had only your interests at heart, if the effects of his action lead to so much ruin and confusion?

What you know must translate into action, and action must translate into knowledge. In this way strategy becomes a lifelong challenge and the source of constant pleasure in surmounting difficulties and solving problems.

Some people, too, are inveterately passive: they are waiting for you to make the bold move, and if you don't, they will think you are weak.