Quotes About Action

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.

They tell us, Sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week? Will it be next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed and a guard stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Sir, we are not weak if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power.

One thing I'd learned over the years: never to waste time moaning about what couldn't be helped. If a body can do something, fine—he should do it. If he can't, then there's no use fussing about it until he can do something.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You

There are two kinds of people in the world, son, those who wish and those who will. The wishers wish to be rich, they wish to be famous, they wish to own a farm or a fine house or whatever. The ones who will, they don't wish , they start out and do it. They become what they want to or they get what they want. They will it.

The point is," Frank said, "that we're here. No use talking about what should have been.

The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight…fight. Talk about it after.

deck. Gavagan rushed him, getting inside and hitting him with a right to the jaw.

lighting a shuck.

I've nothing against a man being scared as long as he does what has to be done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.

slightly. "It seems we have to get rid of Ben—and quickly." "Could Dean Cullane have

He put his hand upon my shoulder and told me that in the world were two kinds of people, those who wish and those who will, and the world and its good will always belong to those who will.

It is good to say that you are afraid," Sakim said. "It is not good to be too bold. A little fear makes a man think. It is better to be a little afraid, and yet do what has to be done.

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There's two kinds of people in the world, son, those who wish and those who will. The wishers wish to be rich, they wish to be famous, they wish to own a farm or a fine house or whatever. The ones who will, they don't wish, they start out and do it. They become what they want to or get what they want. They will it.

brow. He was beginning to feel the letdown after an action, and it was too soon.

From Caprock Rancher : Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight . . . fight. Talk about it after.

Some folks think that being smart in the books is the only kind of smart, but that just isn't so. Men learn a lot by doin', and they learn by listenin' to what others say, but when a man is workin' on a farm or walkin' in the woods or ridin' across country, he can do a lot of thinking. Many a man who reads a lot just repeats what he's read, and not what he thinks.

There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

stronger? Will it be next week? Will it be next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed and a guard stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Sir, we are not weak if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power.

Many times the first man to move was the first to die

I suspect what I was doing would be called courageous. If I rescued them, it might even be considered an heroic action, but was it? Was I not conditioned by reading, by hearing, by understanding what I should do?