Quotes About Action

commentary focused on the unfairness of bailing out Wall Street (a sentiment with which I agreed) rather than on what would have happened had we not acted.

The idea was watch what I do, not what I say.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

No one will do it for you.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

COMMMMANNNNNNNDOOOOOO

Di setiap masyarakat, distingsi-distingsi kelas berpotongan dengan pelbagai sumbu distingsi dan identitas, namun hal ini bukan lantas berarti kita dapat mengabaikan eksistensi mereka. Anda tidak akan menemukan kelas-kelas kecuali Anda sungguh-sungguh mencarinya, menanyakan pertanyaan-pertanyaan dasar seperti "siapa memiliki apa, siapa berbuat apa, siapa mendapat apa, apa yang mereka lakukan dengan itu, apa yang mereka lakukan satu dengan yang lain?

Loving talk is cheap when costly deeds are required.

Love is primarily manifested through action. Love is something you do.

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

Thunder impresses, but it's lightning does the work.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Inactivity is death.

It is necessary to act, to move, to fight and, if necessary, to die. Neutrals have never dominated events. They have always gone under. It is blood which moves the wheels of history!

Verdad es; por eso se dijo que uno piensa el bayo y otro el que lo ensilla

I say that justice is truth in action.

We all have a duty to try to make the world a better place, Quirke.

To allow a human being to drown because you are busy telling God how much you care about Him and His world is the ultimate hypocrisy.

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.