Quotes About Action

Be quick or be hungry.

There is no snooze button on life.

Love is a feeling; romance is love in action."*

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell.

Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Maybe you know the monsters, Martin, Murphy said quietly. But I know the guy who stops them. And if they don't return the girl, we'll make them regret it. She nodded at me and said, Let's go. We can watch Dresden kill the bitch.

My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly. ~Harry Dresden

Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.' 'God,' I said. 'I wish .

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

Troubleshooters? Michael asked. When there's trouble, I told him, they shoot it.

It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?