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Quotes About Action

It's a mistake to do nothing just because you can only do a little.
~ Karen Duffy
Dieser Körper ist der Grund all meiner nie geschehenen Taten.
~ Karen Duve
Vrijheid betekent niet alleen doen wat je wilt, maar ook weten wat je doet, vrijheid betekent overtuigingen hebben en daarnaar handelen. Anders blijft alleen onwetendheid over, een toestand waarin we ons opwinden over onbelangrijke zaken en in alle gemoedsrust dingen accepteren die gruwelijk zijn.
~ Karen Duve
I know if I weren't writing about the things I'd like to do I'd be out doing them. Including killing a whole bunch of folks
~ Karen E. Quinones Miller
Start dreaming. Pray hard. And if God is calling you, don't be afraid to take a step of faith.
~ Karen Ehman
the longer you stew, the more likely you are to strike.
~ Karen Ehman
I've learned that you have to choose courage each day like you choose what shirt to wear. It is not automatic.
~ Karen Harrington
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughters one cold evening
~ Karen Hawkins
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories.
~ Karen Karbo
Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It's faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.
~ Karen Maezen Miller
We have to save the world," I reminded him. He reached for me. "The world can wait. I can't.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.
~ Karen Marie Moning
We will K'Vruck the world.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'll give you a choice. Kill me." "By definition 'choice' mandates a minimum of two possible avenues of action." "I wasn't done. Or kiss me. But do one or the other. Before I do one or the other to you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Question: When you're one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It's how you choose to answer that question that defines you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Procrastinating is number one of my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, scrappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.
~ Karen Marie Moning
At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Either I can stay up here and freeze my ladycrackers off trying to find a falling star, or you can do something about it yourself. I— and my freezing nether regions— would thank you most assuredly. As would all of Dalkeith. Do something, man." - Grimm
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm what-iffing! I don't what-if! What-iffing is for growups. They what-if themselves right into doing nothing, and die without ever living.
~ Karen Marie Moning