Quotes About Action

How you live is truly a choice. What you're going to do and who you are going to do it with, those are choices only you can make. That was my "aha" moment.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

Faith without works is dead

Then came the pak-pak-pak of DeVontay's rifle.

before getting shot, he would never nail both of the armed men from thirty yards away. He could also duck into the water and swim downstream, but he didn't think he could hold his breath long enough to get out of range. That was assuming the rapids ahead were even deep enough to conceal him. "What do you want?" DeVontay said, stalling for time.

Since I could not forget the wounds to people and planet, could not unlearn the dismal numbers--of pollution and population and poverty--that foretold catastrophe, I would have to look harder for antidotes, for medicines, for sources of hope.

I want to leave," she said suddenly. "I want to leave this place. Something bad is going to happen, unless we stop it. We need to call someone.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

And as the hands of the clocks clicked to eight past one, the house awoke to the sudden and definite realization that now was the time. It had waited long enough. It was time to play.

A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow." – GEORGE PATTON

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Therefore, prepare your minds for action, and being sober-minded; set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (1 Pet. 1:13)

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. (James 2:12–13)

I need you to free me from both extremes of naive passivity and fear-mongering aggression.

Worst is the man who has all the good advice And then because his nerve fails, fails to act In accordance with it, as a leader should. And equally to blame Is anyone who puts the personal Above the overall thing, puts friend Or family first.

Until a man has passed this test of office And proved himself in the exercise of power, He can't be truly known--for what he is, I mean, In his heart and mind and capabilities. Worst is the man who has all the good advise And then because his nerve fails, fails to act In accordance with it, as a leader should.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.