Quotes About Action

Risk a lot to save a lot, risk a little to save a little, and risk nothing for what is already lost."

The lack of ability of those in charge to get a grip on a situation, and to take immediate, decisive action rather than simply debate everything endlessly, is one of the major problems in the State education system.

Without even looking at me, he swiped the scissors out of his belt and flung them across the room. They flashed through the air and stuck, shivering, deep in the wood of the door, right next to my head. I held my breath. "I never miss." He grinned. "Unless I mean to.

Upstairs will pull the plug.

10. Appreciate that character is the result of conduct. As Aristotle taught us, we know people primarily by what they do. What others say about them, or what they say about themselves, may or may not be true.

There is release from anguish in action.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, "Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep."

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

Ich pflege, meine Waffen zu benutzen, nicht öffentlich auszustellen. Aber sie liegen bereit.

Aber sie tun es doch, sie sprechen von der Ohnmacht und praktizieren Macht, sie bekennen Demut und demütigen andere!

Labels don't mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving you from drowning?

Our best hope is not found in correct theology, the Bible or any other book, but in the love we express through action rather than words. Our best hope is that love predates creation and thus that the Creator sees us as ever young. Our hope is that when we look at God through the eyes of the loving Christ we will see who God really is. Our ultimate hope is that God will be looking back at us as we'd like to be seen.

If we wait for correct ideas to save us—theological or otherwise—we'll never be saved, even from ourselves.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

I spend a lot of time talking about something I believe passionately, which is that life is what you choose to make it, for the most part, and more often than not all you need to do is seize it by the throat and demand more from it.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

If I had known it was the end, would I have done it any different?

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.