Appropriate Action Quotes

... the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place.

The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.

This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.

Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

When you have an emotional reaction to what you see, you are judging. That is your signal that you have an issue inside of yourself - with yourself - not with the other person. If you react to evil, look inside yourself for the very thing that so agitates you, and you will find it. If it were not there, you will simply discern, act appropriately, and move on.