Quotes About Action

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe he'll shoot at us again. I was hoping someone would shoot at me today. That was the first thing I said when I got up: Boy, I hope I get shot at today.

Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.

Hope is not a strategy

With every step we take we have a choice to make. Our choices determine our actions. Our actions determine who we are.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

let's forget the hope, it's the secondary thing to motivate.the primary one is to approach for it.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act.

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it.

If we keep our dreams in our head they can be forgotten, If we write down our dreams they become tangible, Once they are physical, they have taken the first step in becoming attainable.

Never say that anything is hopeless, Tristal, until it has irreparably failed. And always remember that Elamm' may perform any action, though it may seem impossible to you.

Dean Koontz, False Memory

With everything there is what to do.

Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Don't stand back with your arms folded

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.