Quotes About Action

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Clear your mind of can't.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

The future is purchased by the present.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

The trouble with bravery is," said Johnny. "that if you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you all the time." "Or," said René, "bravery is often just the action of someone who does not know what to do next, and acts out of panic.

folyvást azon gondolkodom, milyen nagyot is fordult mostanában a világ, és hogy az emberek holnap mit meg nem tesznek az ellen, amit ma még félelmükben vagy érdekb?l vallanak és meg is cselekszenek.

the commercial reader (not you, of course; not me), who presumably consumes texts only for story, is assumed to stand deaf to style, and is thought to applaud only the endlessly repeated pornographies of action and passion that, for all their violences, still manage to pander to an astonishingly untroubled acceptance of the personal and political status quo.

that most embarrassing of statistical fictions, the commercial reader (not you, of course; not me), who presumably consumes texts only for story, is assumed to stand deaf to style, and is thought to applaud only the endlessly repeated pornographies of action and passion that, for all their violences, still manage to pander to an astonishingly untroubled acceptance of the personal and political status quo.

The whole mechanism of guilt as a deterrent to right action is just as much a linguistic fault.

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

While [Shakespeare] darts himself forth and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the flood, [Milton] attracts all forms and things to himself, into the unity of his own Ideal. All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton; while Shakespeare becomes all things, yet for ever remaining himself.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

To know and to act are one and the same.

Cominciate col fare ciò che è necessario, poi ciò che è possibile. E all'improvviso vi sorprenderete a fare l'impossibile.

Come up with the game plan while you're in the midst of the action.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.