Quotes About Action

Life is choice. All day, every day. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. So when I'm observing, that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in using your head, but not in spending too much time in there. Fear lives in the head, and courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Oh, you'd be surprised how clearly the heart can see. What I do know is that how we feel drives what we think, and that determines what we do. Our actions leave behind evidence, those facts you mention. But it all starts with an emotion.

It would be a cull." "Culls happen for the health of the community. They're unfortunate, but necessary

the most powerful, spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. We're the only ones who can change our lives, turn them around. So all those years waiting for someone else to do it are wasted.

he should fear never beginning to live.

Sometimes you just have to do something stupid.

A man naturally given to action, Jean-Guy had come late to the value of pausing. "It is solved by walking," Gamache had often said. In the middle of a stressful case, the Chief would leave his office, and instead of doing something, he'd go for a walk.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that.

You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose?

As she got closer, Clara Morrow saw Gamache do it again. He took off his half-moon reading glasses, then

Came a time when people of conscience had to take a stand.

When people are really depressed, they don't have the energy to kill themselves," said Myrna, who had once been a therapist in Montreal. "But as soon as they start feeling a little better, their energy comes back. They're still depressed, but now they can act.

The funny thing about murder is that the act is often committed decades before the actual action.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

The disjoining of deed from will, of practice from theory, is to put asunder what God has joined by an indissoluble sacrament. The soul must be tainted before the action become corrupt; and there is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. Yes, recognition is a powerful motivator—to those who receive it as well as those who observe it.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Do what you will, only do something.

Freedom, the virtue of disinterested action ('good will'), and concern for the general welfare: these are the three key concepts which define the modern morality of duty, and which Kant was to express in the form of absolute commandments, known as categorical imperatives.

Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.