Quotes About Action

We zijn schijnbaar verantwoordelijk voor alles wat we doen, hoe de reeks van gebeurtenissen ook is begonnen.

As their forces broke, the Yorkist cavalrymen raced to the horse park behind their own lines and mounted their steeds to give chase. As they thundered past, the King and Warwick, flushed with victory, yelled, 'Spare the commons! Kill the lords!' Their words went unheeded.

A man of action acts. He doesn't talk or think. Doesn't repeat himself. Nope. Just acts. Is what he does. That's how you judge a man. Not by what he says but by what he does.

There are only two options – make progress or make excuses.

Credibility through action. First, he bought himself time to do his homework. Then by terminating the two engineers who weren't competent in their positions, he increased his credibility with Fred as a person who could take action.

You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things.

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

We can't save everyone, so we have to do what we can when we can.

We don't think about recipes as much as we perform them.

A lo más que llegamos todos es a conferir una apariencia fortuita a nuestros actos más deliberados

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

If you stay neutral, you're in the wrong as an Eagle Scout. In my vision, being an Eagle Scouts is actively trying to do good.

In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.

In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to it's own current.

Are you the man that says nothing or the man that acts upon his beliefs?

A leap of faith means hurdling into the unknown, and believing in our hearts that we will make it to the other side, despite not yet knowing what the other side is going to look like. It is taking bold action in spite of the fact that this action is forcing us out of our familiar territory, and our comfort zones. It also means taking action even though we cannot foresee the results or consequences of our choice. To do this requires both faith and courage!

It is one thing to know the past, but knowing what to do with it is something else. Our aim should be to be liberated from our history.

Coward: one who, in perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.

A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences …" Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want. So Logen said nothing. Calder could take that for weakness if he pleased, and so much the better. Fights might find Logen depressingly often, but he was long, long past looking for them.

You have to pick your moment. He'd always said so. Told everyone who'd listen. Have to recognise it when it comes, and seize it, with no care for the past and no worries about the future.

Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that's my advice.

There's no need to rush, Arch Lector. That's the trouble with good legs, you tend to run around too much. If you have trouble moving, on the other hand, you don't move until you damn well know it's time.