Quotes About Action

Why postpone a necessary element of running with a deviation like heel striking when we can land directly into our next point of action without delay?

I guess you always regret the choices you didn't make, because you imagine that they would have been better choices, that's the thing. But in the end, you just have to choose something and get on with it. Because if you hedge your bets forever, well, you end up with nothing, don't you?

You can press pause as much as you like, but it won't stop what's going to happen. Time to press start again; to un-pause this game and let it play out to the end.

Love isn't something you have, it's something you do.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

Free will was the greatest gift ever offered. God is not responsible for what we did with it. We are. - The Old Man And The Wasteland

Make a plan. Get moving. Get to work. Do something. Make a decision. If you don't, circumstances will decide for you. The enemy loves to tell you what to do.

That's other guys. I'm more of the beaten NCO who sighs and looks off toward wherever as you tell him the next problem he's got to jump all over before everything catches fire and we explode in every direction.

Do something. Make a decision. If you don't, circumstances will decide for you. The enemy loves to tell you what to do.

You ride, Vebla. Ride to live. When you can live, then you can choose how to die.

If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.

No matter what your chosen profession, be prepared for opportunity and be willing to take it—your destiny may depend on it.

practically

Danner strode out of her offices, the adrenaline of rage surging light and hot through her veins. Rage that soon became a kind of exhilaration. She was going to do her job. At last.

Send me strength, she called-to whom?-and kicked Bony to a gallop, and hurled her javelin hard and true.

Two risks, not one. But it was done.

She could not move fast against the weight of water, not against a mounted man, so she did the only thing she could and hurled the boar spear across the horse's path, straight into the bank.

An intrusive leap, an apparently inexplicable impulse, can save your life or someone else's, but it's rare to find a person who can trust their instincts to that degree. You have to be able to get out of your own way. It's always fascinating to watch.

Revolution is progressive and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.

Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.

Liberty is, in fact, alienated from itself in the same gesture in which it is assumed, because free action possesses a coherent structure, an internal organization, a regular proliferation of sequelae. The act unfolds, opens up, and expands into necessary consequences, in a manner compatible with its intimate character and with its intelligible nature. Every act submits a piece of the world to a specific configuration.

Freedom is the myth of unoccupied, empty, void souls. When nothing guides us, freedom seems an admirable program of action. In truth, freedom does not solve the problem of the lost soul in a universe of pure contingency, but imposes its own directives.

The incorrigible political error of the man of good will is to presuppose naively that at every moment it is possible to do what must be done. Here, where what is necessary is often impossible.