Quotes About Action

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.

Human induced climate change is real, and the evidence is right in front of us. It threatens our shores. It promises to bring intense heat waves and powerful storms. It has the power to disrupt our economy, endanger our food supply, and imperil global stability. We must take action to stop it.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way.

Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

I found out some really cool ways to swing around the Winchester.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.