Quotes About Action

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

My policy at the time was that, when confronted by two courses of action, one should always choose the less conservative and more generous. I thought this was tantamount to a moral obligation for anyone who had any advantages at all, and especially for anyone who wanted to be a writer.

Moreover, my policy at the time was that, when confronted by two courses of action, one should always choose the less conservative and more generous. I thought this was tantamount to a moral obligation for anyone who had any advantages at all, and especially for anyone who wanted to be a writer.

Men and women who venture to someone else's war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It's just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise. I

We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.

Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember. Move. Move. While others sleep, move.

If you do things right, NOTHING will go wrong. Conversely if you do things wrong, NOTHING will be right.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances.

My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Francis ascended the stairs without slowing, calling for Marcus and Andrea before he'd reached the top. Then he was gone. If he'd clocked Jeff at all, it was only to verify that someone was behind the desk.