Quotes About Action

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

It isn't much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

There were few avenues of appeal against a declaration of madness – the law holding that the madman was by his nature incapable of the rational decision to take legal action

The more the bullshit, the less the action as a rule,

Knowledge is not enough. You must take action!

In politics there is nothing simpler than simply talking, and nothing more complicated than simply acting.

always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.

But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.

Yo, si algo deseo, no sueño, sino que actúo. Y siempre consigo aquello que deseo

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No. I'm a witcher! When they were teaching me, I swore I would act against Evil. Always. And without thinkin...' 'Because when you start thinking,' she added hollowly, 'killing stops making sense. Revenge stops making sense.

It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it's the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night.

For him the points of the compass have no great importance. It's all the same to him which one he chooses, as long as he's not idle. That is truly a witcher's principium. The world is full of evil, so it's sufficient to stride ahead, and destroy the Evil encountered on the way, in that way rendering a service to Good. The rest takes care of itself. Being in motion is everything, the goal is nothing.

An enchantress always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.

It is easy to kill with a bow, girl. How easy it is to release the bowstring and think, it is not I, not I, it is the arrow. The blood of that boy is not on my hands. The arrow killed him, not I. But the arrow does not dream anything in the night. May you dream nothing in the night either

Geralt jumped to the side, spun a swift pirouette.

Stories like that are made by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it — I act. And I always get what I want. - Yennefer

They observe the principle, Master Witcher, that since the end is justified, the means must be found.

Sword can always be drawn again, faster than you imagine.

But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret. -Margarita / The Time of Contempt