Considered Action Quotes

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

I always try to think before I talk.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.

No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

I went into journalism for a reason. I try to be a thoughtful person. I try to see all sides. And I do think before I speak.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Interior design wasn't something I rushed into.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.