Quotes About Action

I think sometimes it's too hard to believe in yourself. You just do the things you're not sure you can do. You just act, in spite of not being certain. I don't believe I can change the world--it sounds stupid to even talk about it--but I'm going to try.

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

Go forth and light the lights of war

Get a life, sonic boom

To enjoy rodeo properly, you gotta be close enough to see the snot fly.

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal. I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.

A vida passa enquanto estás a decidir o que hás de fazer

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom it gave me- I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it.

doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty... drink it and get on with your life.

Character determines action," she said, slowly, at last. "That is the secret of the great novelists. They put themselves behind and within their characters, and so make us feel that every act of their personages is not only natural but even—given the conditions—inevitable.

Boredom is that agitated space between relaxation and action; dialed down, it can become a pleasant kind of inertia or a meditative stillness, where it feels good to sit quietly with your own thoughts; cranked up a notch, it can produce creative release. But that middle place is the boredom itself – restlessness with no movement. A dull and desperate longing for something else. From Catastrophic Happiness.

Rather than sitting and worrying, do something, anything. Worrying is a waste of time

worrying can lead to stress. What do we accomplish when we worry? Focus your mind on actions rather than on worrying! Action brings less stress

Fix the problem,not the blame.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives...that's real. The rest is a story for publication.

It's one thing to know the right path and another thing to take it.

Sometimes you have to jumpstart the world just to get it to be what even the world admits it should be

But upset is a funny thing. It looks for places to direct itself. It's an emotion given to action, and it needs somewhere to go. Even if it has to make something up as it goes along.