Quotes About Action

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

I was right there in the middle of all of this action. I didn't have to think up gags…The cartoons drew themselves…I was more surprised than anyone when Brother Bootsie became a Harlem household celebrity, not only among the colored proletariat be among the literati as well.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

If one could not bear the memory of the dead, then they must be shut out of memory. There was no other action anyone could take against the bafflement of grief.

Very often, the things that you're most afraid of, are the things that you really just need to go for it.

I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

It is into these two schools that Hakuin's Zen is divided at present. The teaching of the Takuju School is characterized by the mysterious symbolism of words, whereas that of the Inzan School is reputed for the severity of its dynamic action.

Agents and agencies can only be obliged to act in ways for which they have an adequate set of capabilities.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.