Quotes About Action

real bravery is doing what needs to be done, even if what needs to be done terrifies you to the depths of your soul.

Wer ein Menschenleben rettet, handelt, als würde er die ganze Welt retten.

She was the one who went after the criminals. Not the other way around.

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

Like I might be about to do something really, really stupid. And knowing I'm going to do it isn't going to stop it from happening.

Don't make promises," she says, "just do what you can do. Just be what you can be. However flawed that it is.

She read it through just once, before pressing send and propelling it forcefully, wantonly, thoughtlessly into the universe, where it would change the course of her life in ways that she could not possibly have imagined.

Adrenaline blasted a path through her tiredness.

People want to do all manner of things, Kim. If it wasn't for people doing things that the likes of you and I would never do, I'd be out of a job.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

Make your choice and accept the consequences.

Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.

I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

No TV show has meant more to me than 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

I grew up on '80s action movies... Jean Claude Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Stallone... If there were ever some opportunity to do that, it'd be great.

I looked up to action heroes such as Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Jean-Claude van Damme because I liked the attitude and determination they portrayed.