Quotes About Action

As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done.

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

There's the past, which we might wish desperately that we can change, and there's now. If we don't seize the now with all our might, it becomes just another part of the past that we end up wishing we could change.

Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.

Over dinner, I had agreed to be her paladin, and no self-respecting paladin would decide on a course of action based on a majority vote of a committee of two.

This isn't a stupid horror movie, odd one. It's never too late to do the intelligent thing.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirruping.

When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it.

Endeavor to live the life.

In the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsible for yourself, for your every action. You had to be responsible for your buddies, too, because survival wasn't something that could be achieved alone. That's maybe the one positive thing about fighting in a war - it clarifies your thinking and makes you realize that a sense of responsibility is what separates good men from the damned.

The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do.

Carpe noctem

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

What matters is the day at hand and what we do with it, one day at a time, some butter-side-down days, some butter-side-up. And what should we do with the day?

Because when you're doing it, then it's just something you do. But if you talk about it, then it's something you are

Action. Action, shaped by intelligence and a moral perspective, is the answer to most problems.

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw. He

Hope lies in action

Having gotten ahead of the phalanx, Katie drops the Tac Light

He put the screwdriver on a nearby counter.

and takes the Glock in both hands.

She waits until the thing is passing overhead, squeezes off a shot, then a second

she shoots down a megadollar drone that's government property