Quotes About Action

sell. I just want to cut and move on.

yet lack the courage to act on the answer.

Many of you were given two great gifts: your mind and your time. It is up to you to do what you please with both.

And in my own small way, I would like to be part of this unprecedented evolution of humanity, the era where humans work purely with their minds and not with their bodies. Besides, it is where the action is. It is what is happening. It's hip. It's scary. And it's fun.

I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock. (In The Court Of The Dragon)

Ser joven es equivocarse; la juventud tiene que hablar y actuar irreflexivamente para que haya algún progreso

Seria correcto decir que el viento caminaba? No era una figura ni tenia piernas. Yo no lo veia, sólo lo percibia gracias a la sensación, es decir lo notaba y lo dejaba actuar sobre mi. El se alejaba para soplar de nuevo.

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.

No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done-

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.

but she brooded not only about how to tackle her father, but also about what, precisely, she was setting out to do. Test the fire-repellent properties of her discovery. Toward killing dragons. Did she really want to kill dragons? Yes. Why? Pause. To be doing something. To be doing something better than anyone else was doing it.

she brooded not only about how to tackle her father, but also about what, precisely, she was setting out to do. Test the fire-repellent properties of her discovery. Toward killing dragons. Did she really want to kill dragons? Yes. Why? Pause. To be doing something. To be doing something better than anyone else was doing it. She

This army contained 16 divisions, three per corps, but with a fourth division in VIII Corps. Each division could muster around 15,000 men, so the total, with corps troops and the Army reserve, came to some 400,000 men. To this can be added, for the initial onslaught on the German line, two divisions from VII Corps of Third Army, the 46th and the 56th, who would attack the salient at Gommecourt, north of Fourth Army line. More than half the soldiers in this force had never been in action before.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

The doorway to success swings outward not inward.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it

Dream big. Start small. Begin now

You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

Stop making excuses and just do it!

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.