Quotes About Action

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.

It's one thing to say so in a prayer, but it's a whole other thing to match those prayers in obedience.

Peace is not passive; it's powerful.

Liking something and wanting to take it for a ride are two very different things', Joslyn sais, climbing out of the truck to stand on the ground. Hutch's eyes sparkled as he came around to face her. 'I'm not touching that one with a ten-foot pole,' he told her.

than that as Bex turned her back and started to take

When someone needs help, that's the time to help. Not the next day. Not when it's safe.

Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.

Think carefully first, and then act boldly.

Our survival, our humanity, our worldview and language, our imagination and spirit, our very place in the world depends on our capacity to act for ourselves, to engage in the world and the actions of our colonizers, to face them head on.

The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

'Tis the mind must guide the hand.

The whirling wheels, that help us on our way, A lesson to the children, too, will say: "Go on! there's work awaiting you to-day; The whole world moves apace, you must not stay.

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

Somebody armed with the QQ proof can literally charge the world.

Success begins the very moment when 'I might.' becomes 'I might as well.'.

The only thing a person can genuinely make in this life is a decision.

There are only two ways to look at history: people either make things happen, or they let things happen. In that sense, all of history is bipolar; cognate of goodwill and bad fortune. Both philosophies, together, importune a reshaping of destiny.

You can do almost anything, but you can undo absolutely nothing.

Liefde is niet alleen maar hartzeer of vreugde. Liefde krijgt vorm door wat wij ermee doen.

So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am.

violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud

The way I see it, the world is divided into the watchers and the watchees, and there's more and more of the audience and less and less to see. People who actually do anything are a goddamned endangered species.

It is astonishing that, under the circumstances, marriage is still legally allowed. If nearly half of anything else ended so disastrously, the government would surely ban it immediately. If half the tacos served in restaurants caused dysentery, if half the people learning karate broke their palms, if only 6 percent of people who went on roller coaster rides damaged their middle ears, the public would be clamoring for action. Yet the most intimate of disasters . . . happens over and over again.

God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means "anointed or Christlike one." Jesus did not go around "being good"; he went around "doing good" and releasing all who were oppressed. What has he anointed you to do?