Quotes About Action

You know, everything adds up. It's what I keep saying in my books and in Cosmo. If you do every little thing you can do in your own modest position, one thing leads to another. So do it and be it and write the letters and make the phone calls and get on with it.

If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?

What was that technique you were using on those bastards? An ancient form called kicking ass.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap? She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. You hardly ever make the jump.

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

Some things in life are just out of our control. It's what we do about them that counts.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

No second chance? A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

Doing nothing sometimes hurts more than doing something. Life doesn't come with a guarantee, which is just as well, because most guarantees are bullshit.

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.'

You don't want to wait for Owen? Ryder just sneered at him. Afraid of a little sweat, sweetheart? Sunstroke maybe. Find your balls, and let's go get it done.

if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Some people get lifetimes, some get moments. I've got to tell myself it's what you do with what you get that counts.

If you don't go after what you want, you will never have it; If you don't ask, the answer is always no; If you don't step forward, you are always in the same place.

Advice never hurts, taking it often does

Even now, the Lincoln was less than a half block behind. "Dammit. They just won't shake lose." "Oh yeah?" Whitney set her teeth and gave the mirror a quick check. She'd never been a gracious loser. "Watch this." Before Doug could draw a breath, she whipped the Mercedes around in a tight U-turn and headed dead-on for the Lincoln. He watched with a kind of fascinated dread. "Oh my God.

She wasn't the type to sit around ticking off the negatives of her life to see if she could make them outweigh the positives. If something was wrong, something was missing, she acted. Fix the problem and move ahead. Or if the problem couldn't be fixed, she found the best way to live with it.

Without another word, he walked out. Gennie waited until she heard his footsteps on the stairs before she pressed a hand to her stomach. The next time she saw a light in the dark, she told herself, she'd run like hell in the opposite direction.

moving around. I got my gun.

The future is purchased by the present. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

Why haven't you taken door number one already?

acting because of them is.

There's no such thing as predestination or fate or destiny. Life is a series of choices and circumstance, action and the reaction, and results of other people's choices. Your father's illness influenced you to choose this position at this time. I think it was a loving and loyal choice, but it wasn't meant.