Quotes About Action

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

We can passively take our place in the negative chain, accepting the harm to ourselves and passing it on to others. Or we can break the chain and turn the energy of a destructive emotion into a constructive action.

We must choose between a world of fear and a world of progress. We cannot stand by and do nothing while dangers gather.

Life is about the decisions we make to live passionately or passively. Where's your passion?

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

When you find yourself in a position in which you have not asked but need to, are you relying too heavily on luck, chance, or time? Push those temptations away, and make your ask.

Si arrojas un jarrón al suelo, sus pedazos no volverán a unirse cuando tú desaparezcas. El mal que hacemos no puede ser deshecho; solo podemos tratar de compensarlo de alguna manera.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Some pursue happiness, others create it. - Anonymous

Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go.

I'd rather live knowing I made a mistake than wondering if I could have made a difference if I'd tried.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

As Budd Boetticher has put it: What counts is what the heroine provokes,or rather what she represents. She is the one, or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero, or else the concern he feels for her, or who makes him act the way he does. In herself the woman has not the slightest importance.

Tell ya what I'm gonna do, see. I'm not going to hope. Now, you don't either. Don't hope your life will get better. Just make it so. Don't hope you are able to handle this baby. Just do it. Just be glad, just move fast, just do what you need to do. But for god's sake, don't hope. Just be...Just be...

Guerra o indiferencia, no se sabe cuál de las dos es más fácil de lidiar.

She was sorry she hadn't been braver when she'd had the chance.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.

Yes, the night would take energy. But really, what was I saving my energy for? If you want to do something, most likely you will be happy to have done it. Probably you will enjoy vast chunks of the adventure itself too.

Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.

Diseña un plan y reúne todo lo que necesitas, pero, hagas lo que hagas, nunca pienses que es imposible.

Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?

No step is a safe one, so it's safer to take none at all.

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked