Quotes about Action
We are all sorry when we are discovered. Then we are very sorry.It's not the question if we're sorry. The question is did we draw a lesson? The question is: what are we going to do now, when we're sorry?
- JM Coetzee
The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.
- JM Coetzee
The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?
- JM Coetzee
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
- Walt Whitman
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
- George Washington Carver
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
- Khalil Gibran
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
- Chuck Smith
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you make a choice, you change the future.
- Deepak Chopra
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
- Edmund Burke