Quotes About Action

needed to be done in the next day and a half.

Moving forward doesn't mean forgetting the past. Moving forward means doing something about the past.

Guilt is never as good a motivator as love, David. Act out of love. Do it because you love your son.

This was the guy in the "break glass in case of war" box.

We can't always control the outcomes, but we can control what we do.

and leaping back onto the pool's edge, beating most of the displaced water. My friends shook their heads, unimpressed

Sorry won't get my license back." Jake walked faster. "Just shut up. Don't talk to me. It's bad enough I have to spend

choke, and pulled the rip cord. The engine cranked, sputtered, and died. He made sure the gear was in neutral and the

It is good to tell people what we mean, but it is infinitely better to show them. People are looking for a demonstration, not an explanation.

One living sermon is worth a hundred explanations.

People are looking for a demonstration, not an explanation.

We have not been called to hold the fort, but to storm the heights.

Only this morning I heard a radio speaker make the observation that, in most matters, we move in either of two directions: from words to things, or from things to words. That is to say, if we do not make the journey from theories and ideals to concrete situations, then the concrete situations will be lost under a smog of words.

if we do not make the journey from theories and ideals to concrete situations, then the concrete situations will be lost under a smog of words.

A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.

A pantherish twist and shift of his body avoided the blundering rush of two yellow swordsmen, and the blade of one missing its objective, was sheathed in the breast of the other. A

He was no defensive fighter; even in the teeth of overwhelming odds he always carried the war to the enemy.

Once the sword was drawn there was no turning back; for blood called for blood, and vengeance followed swift on the heels of atrocity.

Be ready; now is the beginning of happenings.

When my fictional characters can't slash and slog and litter the pages with one another's carcasses, I'm an utter flop as a tale-spinner.

Strike the tent.

Let the tent be struck.

Whenever you employ your ego to identify yourself as the doer of an action, that action becomes a karma for you.

In (Ancient) Greece the search for knowledge was a linguistic endeavor. I suggest that in China, ideas of valid knowing derived in association with the notion of efficacious arts, or daos, and the central questions that lie behind the philosophical enterprise of early China concern control over action and events rather than understanding; the keys to understanding lay in daos rather than in theories.