5,384 Quotes About Action

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

We want people to be aware that we're taking action on it, ... The most important thing right now is to find out the route along which the methane is migrating.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.

We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction

It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?

I did not know the woman soul, that crowning gift of Providence to man, which, if we do not ourselves degrade it, will set an edge to all that is good in us. I did not know how the love of a woman will tinge a man's whole life and every action with unselfishness. I did not know how easy it is to be noble when some one else takes it for granted that one will be so; or how wide and interesting life becomes when viewed by four eyes instead of two.