Quotes About Action

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

A brighter future is ours to write. Let's begin this new chapter — together — and let's start the work right now.

Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

We need a strategy. And the goal is to bring millions of people together.

Each of us can do only what is within his power. If we dwell on our inability to solve the world's problems, our only possible recourse is despair. Despair accomplishes nothing.

It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.

Elizabeth slept for the rest of the night, somewhat comforted by her decision to do something.

Into what had she allowed herself to be goaded?

There was no conscious thought in her mind, no idea of what she would do if she could reach him in time.

Don't make hope your business plan. —MARY CHRISTENSEN

Good idea. I'll do it.

I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.

better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope.

Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope. Fake it till you make it.

Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which

I pushed the button to shut the TV off. The picture shrank to a little blue star that hurtled backwards through the swampy dark.

For Ben, watching the bad guys blow up buildings and try to shoot down airliners just never got old.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Inspiration is nice, but not until we take action do we move into transformation.

What does it mean, say the words, that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live?

Have I lived enough? Have I loved enough? Have I considered Right Action enough, have I come to any conclusion? Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude? Have I endured loneliness with grace? - A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver