Quotes About Action

I was never a planner, but to wait is to plan, or it is itself some sort of plan. Actions move us swiftly into the irrevocable, but to wait keeps the irrevocable at a distance.

Both anger and alcohol put people in the position where, paradoxically, they have knowledge that moves them to act but also lack the wisdom needed to act well.

It's wrong to do NOTHING when you have the power to do SOMETHING.

You cannot think your way into a new way of acting, but you can act your way into a new way of thinking.

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work

He was backing away behind cover fire with the engaged smile of a teenager seeing his violent daydreams come true.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

No one will ever be moved to Spirit-led action without faith. One's faith is not genuine unless it moves him or her to action. Faith and works are necessary companions. The faith produces the works, while the works demonstrate the genuineness of the faith.

Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It's as ludicrous as saying, "I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor." Either pick it up or don't. I don't want to hear about how your diaper's full. Take it off or stop talking about it.

You get in, You shoot, You get out!

Get busy !!...that is an antidote to worries.And if you still feel the worries,get bussier !!

Those that are afraid to take steps,never build storey buildings

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

Well, all right, Ash thought. Maybe freeing the dragon wasn't such a good idea.

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.