Quotes About Action

Everybody makes that same damned argument. 'I can't do it all, so I'm not going to do any.' And they don't. And it goes on, and on.

The gods have no hands but ours, they say." He held up his fingers and wiggled them.

You are what you do. Choose again, and change.

You will never regret having done so. But you may deeply regret not having done so.

Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

The gods have no hands but ours, they say.

If he was going to charm her, tempt her, and steal her heart, then starting out with her upset with him, possibly frightened of him, may not be the wisest course of action.

And Rowdy felt like a failure. He had failed to protect the only woman who had ever held his heart because he was too damned busy running from her. He should have been home, he should have been holding her in his bed, loving the hell out of her. If he had staked his claim, she wouldn't have been in that damned apartment.

Rodriguez, in addition to the pleasant glow in the mind that comes from a generous action, had another feeling that gives all of us pleasure, a feeling of increased safety; for while he had the ring upon his finger and Morano went unpaid the thought could not help occurring, even to a generous mind, that one of these windy nights Morano might come for his wages.

do it later. Guilt still gnawed on

You were...were... looking at me! Yeah. I was considering having you for breakfast before you kicked me in the jaw.

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done. [as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

government finally made amends for its actions at Ruby Ridge.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fight. Talk about it after.

Folks can't seem to realize that it isn't a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again.

He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

Aye, but a hand properly used can be as dangerous as a knife . . . And a man is not lynched for what he does with his hands.

Yet Tanneman was a man grown up to danger and trouble, knowing nothing else, and for the first time he was acting with conscious, deliberate purpose.

Courage and bravery are words too often used, too little considered. It is one thing to speak them, another thing to live them.