Quotes About Action

For there is a time in the tide of the heart, when Arrived at its anchor of suffering, a grave Or a bed, despairing in action, we ask O God, where is our home?

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her small part to effect change. We change the world when we choose to create a world of forgiveness in our own hearts and minds.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Well, that's the hell of it, isn't it?" she said, turning away. "You never know, but you have to act anyway, don't you?

I'd known that, consciously-and yet I had done it anyway, gone right on with my plans, pursuing my routines, as though life were still settled and predictable, as though nothing whatever might threaten the tenor of my days, As though acting might make it true.

Sometimes our best actions result in things that are most regrettable.

Aye, verra good. Now then, if ye'll just put your hands above your head and seize the bedstead—

make a difference? An instant's panic, as she tried to visualize

Sometimes our best actions result in things that are most regrettable. And yet you could not have acted otherwise.

thinking I meant to snatch this treat for myself, but I pushed

D'accordo, sibilai tra i denti, mentre flettevo con cautela la mano destra ancora formicolante. Cos'è che si deve fare, quando si colpisce un osso e si perde il coltello? Esiste una procedura fissa in questi casi? Oh, aye, rispose Rupert, sghignazzando. Tiri fuori la pistola con la sinistra e lo fai secco.

Ye must do it, and it makes no difference if you're afraid-ye'll do it. It's only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage.

When?" "Now," he said, and took my elbow. "There is no time to lose.

Come on!" he said, grunting as he shifted the Chinaman's slippery form for a better grip. "They'll be after us any moment!

The gate was shut, and he didn't bother fumbling for the latch but seized it with both hands and vaulted over, feeling an absurd rush of fierce pleasure in the feat.

There's a reason why the hero never dies, you know," I said, and attempted a smile, though my face felt stiff and false. "When the worst happens, someone still has to decide what to do. Go into the house now, and get warm.

I lifted the pistol a little

Ye wouldna linger to smell flowers when ye think your shit might turn to ice before ye've got it all the way out.

Do it, I thought, in an agony of apprehension. For God's sake, do it now and don't be gentle!