Quotes About Action

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

People hear what we say but they see what we do. And seeing is believing.

You make the best decisions you can make in the time you have to make them, and you move on.

We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing.

The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.

It is better to do nothing than to contribute to the invention of formal ways of rendering visible that which Empire already recognizes as existent.

Our miniscule action may seem equivalent to inaction. But the courage to held steady in this equivalence enables us to the be the political subject of this new era

The opposite concept of the Latin religio should be sought in the Latin verb negligere. To be religious is synonymous with responsibility, not neglect. To be responsible is to be free—to possess the concrete means of exercising free action. At the same time, to be free is also to be connected to others by a common spirituality.

... life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

I was what came to mind when there was blood on the floor.

Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

Fine words have there place, but action is all.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.

But what can we do?" said Susan. "Think, and hope," said Cadellin. "I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar.