Action Quotes

"I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement."

"There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't."

"The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public."

"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

"The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours."

"In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move."

"Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it."

"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."

"I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite."

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

"Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'"

"Securityis mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.… Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.… Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

"How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers."

"If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?"

"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."

"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition."