Quotes About Action

The practice of personal accountability: We discipline our thoughts. We ask better questions. We take action.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.

For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

Faith, without action, is no faith at all. Love, without sacrifice, is no love at all.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

Look ere ye leap.

When the sun shineth, make hay.

And while I at length debate and beat the bush,There shall step in other men and catch the birds.

When the steed is stolen, shut the stable door.

Nought venture nought have.

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernhard Shaw

you know, get going." "Sure.

The Zen Buddhists have another way of saying pretty much the same thing: meditation is not something you think about; meditation is something you do. Same with well-being. No matter what ails you, you are not going to think your way out of it or read your way out of it. Living well is something you do. So then it's not something we

Or maybe it's time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren't gods — just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I'm sure we can.