When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Never mistake motion for action.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Precaution is better than cure.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.