Quotes About Action

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Ask yourself: What is the best I can do? And then do that.

Don't stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don't fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight.

Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run.

Will you do it later or will you do it now?

What's important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

So I stood up and tossed the other one over the edge too.

Lady pranced and scraped her front hooves on the ice and then lowered her head and looked at us. I inhaled sharply and Leif fired the gun.

One is the life you'll have; the other is the one you won't. Switch them around in your head and see how it feels. Which affects you on a visceral level? Which won't let you go? Which is ruled by fear? Which is ruled by desire? Which makes you want to close your eyes and jump and which makes you want to turn and run?

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice.

when we're in the presence of someone else's pain, the burden of not-doing is so much greater than the burden of doing. Doing lifts the burden. Even if it's a small thing. Like writing a letter.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle

I learned then what I have learned in many other ways over the course of my life: that when we're in the presence of someone else's pain, the burden of not-doing is so much greater than the burden of doing. Doing lifts the burden. Even if it's a small thing. Like writing a letter.

Not regretting it later is the reason I've done at least three-quarters of the best things in my life.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before. It's the man who opts not to invite his abusive mother to

Maybe the meaning was in how we heard the sound, but did nothing about it until it was so loud we had no choice.

Change is one person doing one thing different one time.

If you got the chance, you acted. If you sat back and waited and hoped that something good would come along and save you, or fix what you were too frightened or weak or stupid to fix for yourself, you could wait a lifetime and still be trapped.

If I hadn't stopped that guy, everybody woulda just let him go. Nobody wants to put their ass on the line for anything, you know?

Max took a bag of smoke and flash grenades, the .45 and shotgun Lee had left behind, an Uzi, two short tripod- and swivel-mounted guns with radio antennae, a bag of extra clips, and the bag of surveillance equipment. As an after-thought, he took out the tire iron and jammed it into the ammo bag.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

Take/Throw a Punch