Quotes About Action

But shall we be happy, to say that we live in the dusk rather than in the full night? Shall we rejoice that we shall only suffer, while your offspring will be the ones to know the torments of the damned? Shall this be why we do not act?

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.

no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

No hagas lo que no puedas deshacer, hasta que hayas considerado lo que no podrás deshacer cuando lo hayas hecho.

Many men hope that by saying a thing they can make it so

No one has the right to die uselessly

Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed." "Even when it's stupid to try?" he asked with savage sarcasm. "Especially then," she replied sweetly.

I wanted to stop and think, but the anxiety wouldn't let me. Do it now, do something now, do anything now. The drive to be doing, doing anything, was a pressing need that could not be denied.

Just because a man can do a thing does not mean he should do a thing.

How can I know what I'll do, until I've done it? How can I say?

History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.

Intentions cannot be exchanged for results." - Royal Assassin

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.' You know who said that? The Duke. Always appreciated that man's common sense.

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.

Thus the fundamental illusion from which we must be disentangled, or "undone," is that the proper definition of the life of faith itself is first and foremost a belief system with behavioral consequences, rather than a way of being in the world whose behavior consequences make clear the things we believe. In other words, we are not acting upon beliefs so much as we are believing through action—we are not believers who act but actors who believe.

his get up and go had gone up and went

The only way out is to Run. But you have to do it now. Stay where you are, and you're dead!

Churches are political even when they refuse to act politically, because silence is a form of complicity and thus an endorsement of the status quo.

As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.

When you are down and you don't know how to pick yourself up, start where you are. I can hear Pat's voice saying the words in my head, "Left foot, right foot, breathe.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

Your hands itch to pull out invasive species and replant the native flowers. Your finger trembles with a wish to detonate the explosion of an obsolete dam that would restore a salmon run. These are antidotes to the poison of despair.