Quotes About Action

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.

A wall is a defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

No, inaction. Contemplation. Steadiness. Conservatism. A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.

Get in, get out, and nobody gets hurt, as Uncle Harlan always said, something he picked up in Vietnam.

What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.

A guy who used to come in the bar told me once that if you go in someplace and they don't pay any attention to you, then start stealing stuff. They'll either start paying attention or you'll have something for your time.

inaction. Contemplation. Steadiness. Conservatism. A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.

Change comes through action. Balthasar once said to me, "There's no such thing as a conservative hero.

You don't have to explain why a character pulled the kid from the freezing river, but there better be a pretty good reason why he held that kid under.

Abby jumped into the Prius. Lily bundled the defibrillator into her friend's lap, then jumped in the Prius's back door behind her. "Go! Go! Go!" And with all the roaring fury of a golf cart escaping the back nine, they sped into the traffic

Well, one guy died because of something I said to him, and another had a heart attack because of something I did. A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right? So why me?

Change comes through action.

Change," Joshua said. "A Messiah has to bring change. Change comes through action. Balthasar once said to me, 'There's no such thing as a conservative hero.' He was wise, that old man.

Das Leben war Handeln, es gab keinen Frieden diesseits des Grabes.

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life.

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose.

Let's drop rocks on them!

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.

Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, BAH! just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway...

Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose. Eragon: But what can I do? Saphira: The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you.

The reward may be uncertain, but our doom is inevitable unless we try.

I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done—or would do—something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?