Quotes About Action

Sometimes we have to do things we're scared of. The trick is not to wait until the thing doesn't scare us anymore, because that day might never come. The trick is to do the thing scared.

Are you doing what your heart says to do?

he was upset. Though hopefully not at her. 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. He

Things don't wait for you to believe them. They happen. God is not Tinkerbell. He does what he does whether you clap your hands or hide behind the comfort of your disbelief. Besides, you know all this. You just forgot.

It doesn't help anybody to say, "I'm overwhelmed" or "I just can't." If you have to, then you just do. She

I have no idea what to do." Which was my mom's way of saying, "Now you do something." When my mom said she was out of ideas, it meant I had to step up.

You can do anything you want, so long as you're willing to pay the bill when it comes in.

just kind of poke at the bait. Or grab

It's better to do what you can, fitness-wise, than to do nothing at all.

at a time, to help us get up and out of the house in the morning.

Sorry doesn't mean shit. Not if you don't plan to stop doing the thing you're so sorry about. There has to be more to amends than just a word. Anybody can say a damn word.

nobody does anything wrong until the moment they do.

Funny how we do things before there's even time to think how it will turn out.

Well, here's a thought on that. Raise your ass up off your cot, take it out into the visiting room, and then your eyes will

The fact that you do something as a result of an old, deeply internalized experience doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing to do.

God wants children to live in homes and a community where the laws of God are not just recited and talked about but lived. Children need to see and experience the faith in action.

The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.

The trouble was, September didn't know what sort of story she was in. Was it a merry one or a serious one? How ought she to act? If it was merry, she might dash after a Spoon and it would all be a grand adventure, with funny rhymes and somersaults and a grand party at the end with red lanterns. But if it was a serious tale, she might have to do something important, something involving with snow and arrows and enemies.

A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.

Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.

You're in a story and the body writing it is an asshole. You had to know that, given the action. The story you're in tells you like firing a gun…[I] had enough of it, of things happening one after another and no end in sight. Of reversals and falling in love and tragic flaws and by God if I see another motif in my business I will shoot it dead.

I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it.

If you don't leave now, I'll call the

As long as a man has two hands and a strong back, he can make things happen. It's no good being fearful. Worry won't change the future a whit, and it misses the joy of this glad day.