Quotes About Action

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)

The Philippines just need 100 youth to stand up for their country

Es ist im strengsten Verstande wahr, daß, wie der Mensch überhaupt beschaffen ist, nicht er selbst, sondern entweder der gute oder der böse Geist in ihm handelt; und dennoch tut dies der Freiheit keinen Eintrag. Denn eben das In-sich-handeln-Lassen des guten oder bösen Prinzips ist die Folge der intelligiblen Tat, wodurch sein Wesen und Leben bestimmt ist.

There are only two ways to live a life, wait for a miracle or become one." http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list/34980292-faisal-khosa

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.

Once means happenstance, twice means coincidence, three times means enemy action.

Dang ninja vamp. Eli

Once is chance, twice is coincidence, third time is enemy action. That was military canon.

i comb the crowd, and pick you out...my mouth moves too fast for you to figure it out..it starts eyes closed..to fingers crossed..to I swear I say..I swear i say..

Are you living your life or just waiting to die?

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

Then he jumped up and shouted.

I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.

Ruby once told Margaret that Ben was an accident, but it wasn't true. The house just felt empty without a baby in it. Good God, why do women have such feelings: and worse, having them, why do they then act upon them?

Era a ese hombre a quien yo debía haber matado cuando yo era potro, cuando mis partes no estaban divididas, cuando yo, mi furia y mi voluntad éramos una sola cosa. p. 235

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.' The

The follow-through, the execution, is a thousand times more important than a 'great idea'. In fact, if the execution is perfect, it sometimes barely matters what the idea is. If you want to get rich, don't sit around waiting for inspiration to strike. Just get busy getting rich.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.