Quotes About Action

But courage isn't just suppressed fear. It's also the knowledge of how to act in the moment.

Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?

The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.

For the sake of my daughters in the centuries to come, I must now stand up against this unjust action you are asking of me.

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.

The difference, she decided, was that now there was something to be done. Hell would be raised, and Oberon would come or not, but at least there would be no more idle tears. The night would end in joy or ruin, and somehow that was easier to abide than an endless, static grief.

I read somewhere there's a list of things that you do, and one of them is that you attack the attacker. He can't shoot everybody. Everybody's afraid to do anything, so everybody gets shot.

Immediate action taken by personnel who are on-site when the shooting starts is the most effective way to stop the killing.

I would want it to be learned that basically to do something. Hiding or sitting back is not going to accomplish anything. And the gunman would have been successful if my friend Spencer had not gotten up. I just want that lesson to be learned going forward. In times of terror like that, to please do something, don't just stand by and watch.

A true leader makes a decision and then works to make the decision right.

What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."7

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Do you remember back when you felt you could actually do something to make the world better?" "You're talking to the wrong man. I work for central government, remember? Actually doing something is the mistake we're trained to avoid.

Bullets is okay. Bullets is quick.

It wasn't a very Christian thing to do, that's all.

Darlin'," he says, draining his coffee cup, "I can come up with solutions all day long and you can come up with reasons. Either you take control or all you've got left is reasons.

If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

Tyler introduced a measure to radically alter the Senate, requiring a majority of slave state senators before any action could be taken; for a majority of slave state senators to remove any officer of the executive branch; and for a method for states to formally leave the Union.