Quotes About Action

The spring thinks, the stream runs.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

That the GIs on Omaha Beach did indeed possess the essential fighting skills to save the day has become an elemental moral of American history. No one realized it at the time, particularly the unfortunate men who were subjected to the enemy's relentless barrage of bullets and shells, but Omaha Beach would become one of those exceptional moments in history when Americans defined themselves by their actions as a people worthy of the principles upon which the nation was founded.

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

and love, as an act, lacks a verb

If you are falling....dive.

As for myself, however, today is the day, and I dare not wait for some slow cultural drift finally to pave the way that I might easily float into some nebulous social salvation. I cannot depend on 'them' 'out there' to order into coherency this small sphere of my only present now.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...