Quotes About Action

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Donde haya un árbol que plantar, plántalo tú. Donde haya un error que enmendar, enmiéndalo tú. Donde haya un esfuerzo que todos esquivan, hazlo tú. Sé tú el que aparta la piedra del camino.

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

If this were a game, he could hit pause. He could restart, say different things, the right ones this time. He could search his inventory for the item that would make Sadie not leave.

We must fill our infinite days with something.

You can either be a bystander who lives his life in reaction to the decisions that others make, or you can be the leader who is making those decisions.

But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.

But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.

this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played.

Perché farla, una cosa, se non credi che abbia un grande potenziale.

He had said it would be trouble if she came to his apartment, and still she had gone. If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.

What do you read?" Ismay asks. "Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then A.J. got me into other kinds of books, too. Literary fiction, I think you'd call it. Some of it doesn't have enough action for my taste. Kind of embarrassing, but I like young adult. Plenty of action there and feelings, too.

Courage comes with action. The minute you step forward, the minute you declare your decision, the minute you say, "This is how it's going to go," courage comes. It floods through you and energizes every single fiber of your being. You don't have to wait for it. It'll be there.

Courage comes with action.

But there were a few well-known real-life cowgirls, and the most famous by far were Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane. They were America's first action heroines, amalgams of femininity and fighting spirit. Not since Hannah Dustan scalped her Indian captors in 1697 had the country been so enamored with the idea of a woman warrior.

Kallista nodded. "Come, Torchay. Seems we should pack." They sailed upriver with the dawn. "What's wrong with you?" Someone had hold of Stone's hair, shaking his head as if it were a sackful of kittens to be drowned.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

Don't be afraid. Don't wait. Don't get caught. Just go. Go fast.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Jesse: But—but are you okay? Tulip: Yeah, fine. I checked out the bad guy's place and shot them up a little bit, you know. There were quite a lot of them, and one guy nearly got me with a throwing knife— But I know you'll be cool with that, because you can trust me to handle myself. Let's go.

Fuck with the bull, you get the horns.

Get busy mother f---er!