Quotes About Action

Los libros de historia dicen que los reyes, los duques o los generales son quienes empiezan las guerras. No te lo creas. Las empezamos nosotros, tú y yo. Cada vez que le damos la espalda a alguien, que guardamos silencio, que no nos metemos, que nos portamos bien.

Life deals you the cards. but it is up to us how we play them

I know the task ahead seems impossible, but all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Do you watch Cops on TV?" "I love Cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with the boring parts taken out.

I love cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with all the boring parts taken out.

Anything making you feel guilty is definitely worth doing.

This was Einstein's explanation for the phenomenon of entangled particles, which he termed "spooky action at a distance.")

Do we really need to be fed more of the Word, or are we simply undernourished from an absence of living the Word? Maybe we love God, but are we loving others? If our faith is about us, then we are not just hungry—our spirits are starving.

We cannot think our way into a new kind of living. We must live our way into a new kind of thinking.

There are so many things that reside outside of a man's control, son. True courage is not measured in battles won. It is finding the right cousre of action and following it, no matter the repercussions

I guess there were two types of people in the world, those who sat around a fire, staring into the flames, and those who started the fire. Seth and I started the fire, and then we danced around it.

So? What are you going to do about it? Throw your mashed potatoes at me? I'm consumed by terror.

I don't believe in destiny or fate—I believe in choice. Love wasn't just a choice—it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices. Every day was a choice.

Some people just need to be flying tackled.

I had my knife in hand before I realized I'd reached for it and had kicked open the...front door before it ever occurred to me that it might have already been unlocked.

you have to see the world to change it.

She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn't change anything.

There's nothing like speed for getting out of your own head—and out of your own way.

The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes

Als je iemand dood wilt hebben, vind ik dat je op zijn minst het fatsoen moet hebben het zelf te doen, en het goed te doen.

This is some double-oh-seven-level shift right here, Ave. I'm motherfaxing James Bond, motherfaxers!

On your marks, boys," Tobias Hawthorne said on the recording. "Get set. Go.

When I saw a problem, I solved it. I wouldn't stay powerless for long.