Quotes About Action

Let us go hurtling around the galaxy thwarting evil, shall we?

Thy King needs thee to shape what will follow, Will. There's nothing thou canst do to help Marlowe now. They will have already begun.

Kusanagi-Jones had only one idea, and it involved doing something he hadn't willingly done in his adult life.

Maybe that was the trade: Stay erased and still and quiet and be invisible and safe. Take an action, claim space, be noticed-and open yourself up to attack by everyone and everything.

He glanced down, his lashes thick and ivory against his blue-tinged cheek, and draw the dead man's sheath and knife from his boot.

I was wondering, frankly, what kind of pointless gesture I could make just so I wouldn't feel like I was just dying passively.

I realized I was mirroring her, and intentionally broke the pattern by setting the mug down.

Coincidence was possible. But what was much more likely was enemy action.

Consciences are the sort of thing that don't seem really desirable to have, unless you're currently using yours.

She was what she was. She did what she did. I didn't think she worried about the whys and wherefores too much, come to think of it.

Knowing what to do doesn't help at all when you have a habit of justifying why today isn't the day to do the work—convincing yourself that tomorrow holds some promise today doesn't.

I see a lot of people who are addicted to learning. What they need is a healthy dose of doing!

You don't need to take notes; you need to take action.

It's not about how much you know. It's about what you consistently do. It's not about taking notes; it's about taking action.

Change is a result of what you do now, not what you intend to do tomorrow.

what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

Remember, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Don't be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.

Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.

I AM the violet flame     In action in me now I AM the violet flame     To Light alone I bow I AM the violet flame     In mighty cosmic power I AM the light of God     Shining every hour I AM the violet flame     Blazing like a sun I AM God's sacred power     Freeing every one

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do. She was trying not to be frightened in her mind, and she found that that sort of waiting and thinking really keep a person quite busy.

Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.

Perhaps she had not understood the heights to which prayer must rise before it becomes pure praise, the fortitude that is demanded before it can share in the redemption of man's soul. The man of prayer beside her had said it was action, the greatest activity there is. She began to believe him.