Quotes About Action

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." WILLIAM JAMES

Our heroic projects that are aimed at destroying evil have the paradoxical effect of bringing more evil into the world.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Not the why but the what.

Never mistake motion for action.

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

If I do it you won't ever worry?' 'I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.' Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me.

He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull.

I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.

There is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Everyone given the right opportunity will behave badly.

Maybe I'll be able to later. I can do nearly everything later.

Tomorrow can be a day of much valid action. Tomorrow can be a day of concrete acts. Tomorrow can be a day which is worth something. That tomorrow should come and that I should be there.

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

E nisto consiste a moral: coisas que fazemos e das quais depois sentimos repulsa.

Everyone needs to do what they can do, by how truly they can do.