Quotes About Action

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.

Fear is temporary. Regret is forever.

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.

None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

One who thinks by the inch and talks by the mile should be kicked by the foot.

Show a leg or shake a leg.

Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.

The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.

The man who said he never had a chance, never took a chance.

The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it may crown you with glory and riches for what you do.

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Thinking before acting is wisdom but acting before thinking is regret.

That men at some time are masters of their fates was no longer merely a famous quotation. The idea haunted him, continually taunting him to confront it, but his mind responded only dully, in slow ineffective spasms. He did not know whether he should resign himself to his world, and to the rhythm that, living as we do, is imposed upon us, or whether he should believe in the mere words of an ancient Hindu poem, which held that action was better than inaction.

Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?

In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and hunger of the open lands stimulate action, invention, and resourcefulness.

In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and hunger of the open lands stimulate action, invention, and resourcefulness. While these Andonic tribes were developing the pioneers of the present human race amidst the hardships and privations of these rugged northern climes, their backward cousins were luxuriating in the southern tropical forests of the land of their early common origin.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Start at the point where you need me to hit something with a sword.

Things only change when we want to change them...

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.