Quotes About Action

Go out there and play hard, understand your teammates, understand the other team's gameplan, understand your coaches' philosophies and what they want you to do. There's nothing better than showing, though; more than talking, you have to make your actions speak louder than words.

Every game is decided by one or two plays that teams do or don't make; you've got to make them or else you lose.

I was going to ruin everything, right here and right now. I'm really not good with impulse control.

The heels reminded me of the silver stakes Eddie and Rose used to kill Strigoi.

Once I was satisfied I knew it, I handed it to Adrian and shot him a hopeful look. "Wish me luck," I said. "You make your own luck," he replied.

They talk. You act.

So why," she muttered to herself, "am I always breaking up bar fights?

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever," she'd said once. "Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

Oh, Rose." He didn't laugh, but I could tell he was smiling again. "I don't think you'd ever be happy someplace quiet. You always need something to do." "Are you saying I have a short attention span?" "Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.

Unable to fight it any longer, she jumped up and made for the door, not even bothering with the beside lamp. Smart. Miranda. Real smart.

As a battalion commander in France, it was said, he had once pulled a pistol on a hesitant junior officer and shot him in the buttocks. "There," Allen said. "You're out. You're wounded." Such gestures would be unnecessary here.

nothing is more difficult in war than to adhere to a single strategic plan" and to resist the "constant temptation to desert the chosen line of action in favor of another one.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

five seconds. At 9:30 a headquarters clerk scribbled in the

West Virginia is among the nation's leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor.

complaining to people who can do nothing tends to lower morale and productivity, while postponing effective action.

Don't Just Talk About What You can Do; Make It Happen!

If you talked about writing books, you'd never do it.

Politics is motion." John Sears

Manion's people did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group. "For America

Don't mistake activity for achievement," John Wooden

Knowledge without application eventually becomes boring and unfulfilling

This is Annabeth," Jason said. Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.