Quotes about Action

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you really want it, you take it.

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....

only when mankind would submit to the One God who created all—only then would mankind even approach the "peace" of which so much talk could be heard…but toward which so little action was seen. I

I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.