Quotes About Action

When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.

If you believe that the world is coming to an end, perhaps any day now, does it not drain ones motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?

Sloth is the thief of time. The character defect of putting off actions "until things get better" is one of the most destructive detours we can make. Delays never make problems "go away;" they only make success harder to attain.

In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

God, not me, makes me different by giving me what it takes to change. It is my job to act and behave like the change has occurred. In doing this, the process of change happens.

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

My book is called, Shut Up And Stop Whining: How To Do Something With Your Life Besides Think About Yourself.

Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot!

Quick! To the Bat-Fax!

Hope has power only when married to personal action.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.

God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

you would like to cure yourself of unbelief and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness.

Thus men who are naturally conscious of what they are shun nothing, so much as rest; they would do anything to be disturbed.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions. However different the means they may employ, they all strive towards this goal. The reason why some go to war and some do not is the same desire in both, but interpreted in two different ways. The will never takes the least step except to that end. This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

Si no actúas como piensas, vas a terminar pensando como actúas.

Mais Dieu, en imposant, avertit de faire ce qu'on peut, et de demander ce qu'on ne peut pas. »

The Genovese story has been used to highlight the fact that for many it is preferable to avoid controversy than to step forward and attempt to do the right thing.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

I thought I had seen a face like Sun Pie's before but couldn't remember just where. He had an unusual way of talking…slow but with slam bang action words.