Quotes About Action

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, Fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear; And the best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds, For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

The time when Humble Inquiry is often most needed is when we observe something that makes us angry or anxious. It is at those times that we need to slow down, to ask ourselves and others "What's really going on?" in order to check out the facts. Then we ask ourselves how valid our reactions are before we make a judgment and leap into action.

This," said T. X. exultantly, as he read the advertisement, "is where I get busy.

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

succeeded in making a small, jerky motion. "I was only doing my job.

For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.

He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.

You'll laugh at me, of course"—Geoffrey smiled a hasty and unconvincing negative—"but in the long run it is the people who dream of being men of action who are the men of action. Admittedly Don Quixote made a fool of himself with the windmills, but when all's said and done, there probably were giants about.

To live, for him, has no meaning other than to drive oneself, to act with all one's strength. An existence without stress, without struggle, without growth has always struck him as mindless. Those who remain on the sidelines he sees as cowards, and consequently his personal enemies.

Tell her the joyous time will not be stayedUnlesse she do him by the forelock take.

As long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

Una cosa es planear las cosas en la cama, en las noches de desvelo, con los ojos clavados en el techo. Ejecutar el plan con el que soñamos es otra cosa bien distinta.

God bless America. Let's save some of it.