Quotes About Action

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

God helps those who help themselves.

You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running

What's done cannot be undone. What's set into motion takes on a life of its own.

I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world.

Just know that what's done can be undone, but what's undone can never again be.

What you wind up regretting aren't the things you do, it's what you don't do that you will never forgive yourself for.

Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly.

Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when it's gone wrong. Wait and see. If love doesn't come to you, you have to go find it.

Remind customers they must be careful what they wish for, Isabelle instructed. What's done cannot be undone. What's set into motion takes on a life of its own.

It's figuring out the why of things; the final factor that makes a person act can be so damn elusive, but you can always find some motivation, if you look hard enough. The wrong word said at the wrong time, a gun in the wrong hand, the wrong woman who kisses you just right. Money, love, or fury - those are the causes for most everything.

What you set out into the world came back to you threefold.

Without courage, you will never find the answer

People doing something that seems to them natural and necessary. At least, one of them is doing what seems natural and necessary, and the other believes that the important thing is for that person to be free, to go ahead. They understand that other people

There is a change coming I think in the lives of girls and women. Yes, but it is up to us to make it come.

Acts done without faith may restore faith.

She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.

I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I could tell, was simply an illusion.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

you must live in the world today as you wish everyone to live in the world to come. That can be your contribution. Otherwise, the world you want will never be formed. Why? Because you are waiting for others to do what you are not doing; and they are waiting for you, and so on. The planet goes from bad to worse.