William Gilmore Simms Quotes

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

The real risk is doing nothing.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.