Quotes About Action

Do this one thing.

Plot is a chain of cause-and-effect relationships that constantly create a pattern of unified action and behavior. Plot involves the reader in the game of "Why?

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

Quero dizer que nunca ninguém ganhou uma luta denfendendo-se. Para vencer, é preciso atacar.

Agg'ié nagné 'eggins anyg nein'yié. [What I do shows me what I am seeking.] —Sulagnés, artist from the planet Gnío

Porque cada cual es dueño de su destino... o al menos debe actuar como si lo fuera.

Describing an unsatisfactory apartment for which an up-and-comer had to settle:] The flat crouched around him, watching like a depressed relation, waiting for him to take some action.

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

If u cant tell how u feel now and hold on to that than your left not knowing what could have happened. Dont wait and be too late let yourself out now.

The past is what the present is doing now.

Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles

Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.

Life is not a rerun, we don't have stunt doubles or understudies, we're it. The universe doesn't happen to us, we are the universe happening. It actually matters what we do.

I cannot let things remain as they are, because then I would not be free. If I cease to act because I fear the future, then I create a worse enslavement for myself. That much I know. While my people are not free, I am not free. If the freedom and justice I seek loose destruction upon the earth, then I accept that responsibility, but it seems to me that the real responsibility must be borne by those who keep me from my freedom. I must act!

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.

Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after.

To abstain from action is well—except to acquire merit.' 'At the Gates of Learning we were taught that to abstain from action was unbefitting a Sahib.

She could not take the words back—words never will come back—and she looked round for something she could do.

Anyone can be a cause of his or her own destruction, but no one can claim individual responsibility for having created a great good.

Fixing motives is like fixing blame-the further away from the act you get, the harder it is to single out one thing as having caused it.